Cataract-growth hormone deficiency-sensory neuropathy-sensorineural hearing loss-skeletal dysplasia syndrome

What it is

A rare mitochondrial disease characterized by a highly variable phenotypic spectrum comprising delayed motor development, peripheral neuropathy, cataract, short stature due to growth hormone deficiency, nystagmus, sensorineural hearing loss, dysmorphic facial features, and skeletal abnormalities consistent with spondyloepimetaphyseal dysplasia. Hyperextensible joints, achalasia, and telangiectasia have also been described. Cognition is normal. Atrophy of the pituitary gland has been observed in brain imaging.

Key facts

Prevalence

<1 / 1 000 000

Age of onset

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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