Infantile-onset axonal motor and sensory neuropathy-optic atrophy-neurodegenerative syndrome

What it is

A rare neurologic disease characterized by axonal sensorimotor neuropathy, progressive optic atrophy, cognitive deficit, bulbar dysfunction, seizures, and early hypotonia and feeding difficulties. Additional possible features include dystonia, scoliosis, joint contractures, ocular anomalies, and urogenital anomalies. Brain MRI reveals variable degrees of cerebral atrophy. The disease is fatal in childhood due to respiratory failure.

Key facts

Prevalence

<1 / 1 000 000

Age of onset

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.

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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