CATCH 22 syndrome

English

Etymology

The salient features of DiGeorge syndrome can be summarized by the mnemonic CATCH 22 (an allusion to Catch-22, a 1961 novel by Joseph Heller):

• Cardiac defects,
• Abnormal facies,
• Thymic aplasia,
• Cleft palate,
• Hypocalcemia/hypoparathyroidism, and
• 22q11.2 deletion.

Noun

CATCH 22 syndrome (countable and uncountable, plural CATCH 22 syndromes)

1. (pathology, informal) Synonym of DiGeorge syndrome