Infantile neurodegeneration-progressive spasticity-intellectual disability-white matter lesions syndrome

What it is

A rare genetic neurological syndrome of variable severity characterized by progressive spasticity affecting predominantly the lower limbs. Most patients manifest global developmental delay, moderate to severe intellectual disability and white matter abnormalities in infancy complicated by variable features including seizures, episodic respiratory failure, joint contractures and ocular problems. Some patients have normal early development until later childhood followed by regression in motor, cognitive and language skills over time. Some patients manifest only spastic paraplegia.

Key facts

Prevalence

<1 / 1 000 000

Age of onset

Infancy, Neonatal

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.

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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