Autosomal recessive spastic paraplegia type 28

What it is

Autosomal recessive spastic paraplegia type 28 is a pure form of hereditary spastic paraplegia characterized by a childhood or adolescent onset of slowly progressive, pure crural muscle spastic paraparesis which manifests with mild lower limb weakness, gait difficulties, extensor plantar responses, and hyperreflexia of lower extremities. Less common manifestations include cerebellar oculomotor disturbance with saccadic eye pursuit, pes cavus and scoliosis. Some patients also present pin and vibration sensory loss in distal legs.

Key facts

Prevalence

<1 / 1 000 000

Age of onset

Adolescent, Childhood, Infancy

Inheritance

Autosomal recessive

Classified as

Disease

Prevalence figures describe populations, not individuals, and are often estimates from a single study. Where the figure is an incidence or a birth prevalence, it says so.

Signs and symptoms

These ranges are how often a sign appears across everyone diagnosed, not a prediction for one person — most people have some of these and not others. Orphanet also records findings that are specifically absent in this disease; those are in the data but not listed here.

Gene

ICD-10 codes

ICD-10 has no distinct code for most rare diseases, so many are filed under the nearest available one. A shared code identifies the group, not this disease — the ORPHAcode above is what identifies it.

Related health topics

Reached through the ICD-10 categories this disease is filed under, so these describe the broader group rather than this disease specifically.

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