Rare diseases · Sign or symptom
Postnatal growth retardation
Growth delay as children
HP:0008897
What it means
Slow or limited growth after birth.
Rare diseases that can present with this119
Very common80–99%
42- Alazami syndrome
- Autosomal recessive cutis laxa type 2, classic type
- Aymé-Gripp syndrome
- B3GALT6-related spondylodysplastic Ehlers-Danlos syndrome
- Blepharophimosis-intellectual disability syndrome, Ohdo type
- Cockayne syndrome
- Cockayne syndrome type 1
- COG7-CDG
- De Barsy syndrome
- Dermatosparaxis Ehlers-Danlos syndrome
- Donohue syndrome
- Early-onset familial hypoaldosteronism
- Glycogen storage disease due to liver and muscle phosphorylase kinase deficiency
- Growth delay due to insulin-like growth factor type 1 deficiency
- Hydranencephaly
- Hypocalcemic vitamin D-dependent rickets
- Kabuki syndrome
- Maternal uniparental disomy of chromosome 20 syndrome
- Maternal uniparental disomy of chromosome 2 syndrome
- Monosomy X syndrome
- Mosaic monosomy X syndrome
- Mucolipidosis type II
- Mucolipidosis type III alpha/beta
- Müllerian derivatives-lymphangiectasia-polydactyly syndrome
- Paternal uniparental disomy of chromosome 6 syndrome
- RAPADILINO syndrome
- Ring chromosome 2 syndrome
- Ring chromosome 3 syndrome
- Roberts syndrome
- Rubinstein-Taybi syndrome due to CREBBP mutations
- Rubinstein-Taybi syndrome due to EP300 haploinsufficiency
- Sanjad-Sakati syndrome
- Silver-Russell syndrome
- Silver-Russell syndrome due to a point mutation
- Silver-Russell syndrome due to maternal uniparental disomy of chromosome 7
- Temple syndrome
- Temple syndrome due to maternal uniparental disomy of chromosome 14
- Temple syndrome due to paternal 14q32.2 microdeletion
- Turner syndrome
- Turner syndrome due to structural X chromosome anomalies
- Wrinkly skin syndrome
- X-linked intellectual disability-global development delay-facial dysmorphism-sacral caudal remnant syndrome
Common30–79%
38- 15q24microdeletion syndrome
- 21q22.11q22.12microdeletion syndrome
- 21q deletion syndrome
- 3MC syndrome
- 3-phosphoserine phosphatase deficiency, infantile/juvenile form
- 9q21.13microdeletion syndrome
- Agammaglobulinemia-microcephaly-craniosynostosis-severe dermatitis syndrome
- Autosomal dominant Kenny-Caffey syndrome
- Autosomal recessive cutis laxa type 2A
- Autosomal recessive Kenny-Caffey syndrome
- Barth syndrome
- Brachytelephalangic chondrodysplasia punctata
- CHARGE syndrome
- Coffin-Lowry syndrome
- Coffin-Siris syndrome
- COG1-CDG
- Congenital bile acid synthesis defect type 2
- Cortical dysgenesis with pontocerebellar hypoplasia due to TUBB3 mutation
- Deletion 5q35 syndrome
- Distal deletion 10q syndrome
- Distal deletion 15q syndrome
- Dubowitz syndrome
- GM2 gangliosidosis, AB variant
- Hereditary cryohydrocytosis with reduced stomatin
- Isotretinoin-like syndrome
- Kagami-Ogata syndrome due to maternal 14q32.2 hypermethylation
- Kagami-Ogata syndrome due to maternal 14q32.2 microdeletion
- Kagami-Ogata syndrome due to paternal uniparental disomy of chromosome 14
- Keppen-Lubinsky syndrome
- Mandibuloacral dysplasia
- Maternal uniparental disomy of chromosome 4 syndrome
- Methylcobalamin deficiency type cblE
- Mosaic trisomy 17 syndrome
- Mosaic trisomy 2 syndrome
- Mosaic trisomy 7 syndrome
- Ogden syndrome
- Osteopenia-intellectual disability-sparse hair syndrome
- PDE4D haploinsufficiency syndrome
The range is how often this sign appears among people diagnosed with each disease — it is not a probability of having any of them. Many of these signs also occur in common, non-rare conditions. A sign on this page is a conversation to have with a clinician, not a conclusion.
Part of the broader category
Also called: Growth retardation as children · Postnatal growth deceleration · Postnatal growth deficiency · Postnatal growth failure
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