Lowe's syndrome

(Charles Upton Lowe, 20th century, American paediatrician), (also called oculocerebrorenal syndrome), a rare X-linked hereditary disease probably due to abnormal inositol phosphate metabolism. Renal tubular dysfunction with metabolic acidosis develops, associated with delayed psychomotor development, noninflammatory arthropathy with pain and cataracts. MR shows white matter abnormalities in the periventricular area and centrum semiovale. Mild ventriculomegaly may be present and sometimes minor migration anomalies with polymicrogyria.

GS