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Congenital insensitivity to pain with severe intellectual disability

Disease definition

Congenital insensitivity to pain with severe intellectual disability is a rare autosomal recessive hereditary sensory and autonomic neuropathy characterized by the complete absence of pain perception from birth, an unresponsiveness to soft touch, severe non-progressive cognitive delay, and normal motor movement/behavior and strength. Affected cases retained hot and cold perception.

ORPHA:453510

Classification level: Disorder
  • Synonym(s):
    • Congenital absence of pain with severe intellectual disability
    • Congenital analgesia with severe intellectual disability
    • Congenital insensitivity to pain with preserved temperature sensation
    • Congenital insensitivity to pain with severe non-progressive cognitive delay
  • Prevalence: <1 / 1 000 000
  • Inheritance: Autosomal recessive 
  • Age of onset: Neonatal
  • ICD-10: G60.8
  • OMIM: -
  • UMLS: -
  • MeSH: -
  • GARD: -
  • MedDRA: -

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