CASE REPORT: TRISOMY 21 HEALTH FROM BIRTH TO ADULTHOOD USING A SOCIAL PARTICIPATION AND WELLBEING LENS.

Robin Lynn Treptow

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CASE REPORT: TRISOMY 21 HEALTH FROM BIRTH TO ADULTHOOD USING A SOCIAL PARTICIPATION AND WELLBEING LENS.

Autores

Robin Lynn Treptow

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Resumo

Área temática

Compromisso Social do Médico Católico

Data de Publicação

21/08/2026

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Brasil

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pt-BR

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https://www.even3.com.br/anais/xxvii-fiamc-world-congress-for-catholic-physicians-abstract-session-688844/1510313-case-report--trisomy-21-health-from-birth-to-adulthood-using-a-social-participation-and-wellbeing-lens

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978-65-272-2684-0

Palavras-Chave

Trisomy 21, disability, causation, causality, case report, social data,

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Introduction: Medical change across established conditions may seem static—without notable shifts even as care options improve. Case reports inform a cause-and-effect lens by applying theory to facts and extracting ideology. They employ evidence, exemplars, and inference to nudge physicians’ grasp of causativeness. A case report may illustrate a disease process or prototype, or it may show exceptions or rarities to probe medicine’s thinking. This longitudinal analysis of Trisomy 21 is of the latter type. The case report highlights a 2-decade trajectory of functional occurrences outside Trisomy 21 disease-predicted norms and is presented to aid physicians in hypothesis construction, premise testing, and shifting of outcome paradigms for pediatric patients with this medical condition. We ask: Can analysis of social functioning across early life for a man with full Trisomy 21 spur alternative thinking within medicine regarding the oft-expected limits for youth with this genetic condition? Case description: This Trisomy 21 case report analyzes lifestyle medicine for a child with differing abilities. Insights from an adult Trisomy 21 case report are applied. The patient is a male infant with confirmed complete trisomy 21 genome born a few decades after institutionalizing of infants with Trisomy 21 had ended in the United States. His parents were discontent with disease-projected intellectual outcomes for their child. Our case report lays out development using social participation and wellbeing lenses to probe its value for physicians treating infants, children, and adolescents with this condition. Social factors in outcome causality may be often ignored or minimized for children with congenital differences even as medicine per se for them advances. Structurally, the case report moves through developmental time: birth to toddler; early | middle childhood; and adolescence | early adulthood illustrating Smythe et al’s (2025) quality of life factors: functioning, family, fitness, fun, friends, and future—with food, formidability under pressure, and faith interposed. Theories of causality from this case report provide evidence at an N of 1 level that upper barriers of expected performance for Trisomy 21 can be shaken. Tabulated evidence for functioning, family, fitness, fun, friends, and future show: (1) infancy, e.g., alert attention during library story hour; middle childhood, e.g., recited John 1 aloud in Latin; adolescence, e.g., landed 3-point baskets during high school games; and early adulthood, e.g., graduated college with philosophy and theology double major. Conclusion: We showcase (1) outcome data; (2) causal interaction exemplars (3) causation mechanics; (4) conditions that allow for causativeness; (5) inference about causality when not all factors are controlled; and (6) looking past group norms to investigate clinical advances. Pertinence for early onset conditions and pediatrics broadly is integral to this data, offering clinician insight.

Título do Evento: XXVII FIAMC World Congress for Catholic Physicians - ABSTRACT SESSION
Cidade do Evento: Brasília
Título dos Anais do Evento: Proceedings of the XXVII FIAMC World Congress of Catholic Physicians and VI Brazilian Congress of Catholic Physicians
Nome da Editora: Even3
Meio de Divulgação: Meio Digital

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TREPTOW, Robin Lynn. CASE REPORT: TRISOMY 21 HEALTH FROM BIRTH TO ADULTHOOD USING A SOCIAL PARTICIPATION AND WELLBEING LENS... In: Proceedings of the XXVII FIAMC World Congress of Catholic Physicians and VI Brazilian Congress of Catholic Physicians. Anais...Brasília(DF) Casa Dom Luciano, 2026. Disponível em: https//www.even3.com.br/anais/xxvii-fiamc-world-congress-for-catholic-physicians-abstract-session-688844/1510313-CASE-REPORT--TRISOMY-21-HEALTH-FROM-BIRTH-TO-ADULTHOOD-USING-A-SOCIAL-PARTICIPATION-AND-WELLBEING-LENS. Acesso em: 11/09/2026