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Severe neurodevelopmental disorder with feeding difficulties-stereotypic hand movement-bilateral cataract
Disease definition
A rare pervasive developmental disorder characterized by microcephaly, profound developmental delay, intellectual disability, bilateral cataracts, severe epilepsy including infantile spasms, hypotonia, irritability, feeding difficulties leading to failure to thrive, and stereotypic hand movements. The disease manifests in infancy. Brain imaging reveals delay in myelination and cerebral atrophy.
ORPHA:500545
Classification level: Disorder- Synonym(s): -
- Prevalence: <1 / 1 000 000
- Inheritance: -
- Age of onset: Neonatal, Infancy
- ICD-10: F84.8
- OMIM: 617393
- UMLS: C5568106
- MeSH: -
- GARD: -
- MedDRA: -
A summary on this disease is available in Deutsch (2020) Español (2020) Français (2020) Nederlands (2020)
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- Article for general public
- Español (2022) - Asociación Nacional de Personas con Epilepsia-ANPE


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