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Start free with EleplanCirrhosis-dystonia-polycythemia-hypermanganesemia syndrome
ORPHA:309854Disease
What it is
A rare disorder of manganese transport characterized by childhood onset of extrapyramidal movement disorder (including dystonia, tremor, and bradykinesia), liver cirrhosis, polycythemia, and hypermanganesemia. Cases with spastic paraparesis without extrapyramidal dysfunction have also been reported. Cognitive functions are preserved. Brain imaging findings are consistent with deposition of manganese in the basal ganglia, dentate nucleus, brain stem, and anterior pituitary.
Key facts
- Prevalence
- <1 / 1 000 000
- Age of onset
- Childhood
- 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
Common30–79%
24- Abnormal basal ganglia MRI signal intensity
- Abnormal blood inorganic cation concentration
- Abnormal globus pallidus morphology
- Abnormality of the liver
- Abnormal myelination
- Abnormal transferrin saturation
- Action tremor
- Bradykinesia
- Dysarthria
- Dysdiadochokinesis
- Dystonia
- Elevated circulating hepatic transaminase concentration
- Esophageal varix
- Gait disturbance
- Hepatomegaly
- Hypertonia
- Hypomimic face
- Micronodular cirrhosis
- Peripheral neuropathy
- Polycythemia
- Portal hypertension
- Postural instability
- Rigidity
- Splenomegaly
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.
Cross-references
Orphadata Science: Free access data from Orphanet. © INSERM 1999. Data version 2026-06-23. Available under CC BY 4.0. This is a reference, not medical advice.
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