Optic atrophy-ataxia-peripheral neuropathy-global developmental delay syndrome

What it is

A rare mitochondrial disease characterized by a variable clinical phenotype with the core features of optic atrophy, ataxia, and hypotonia. Additional common manifestations include global developmental delay with or without regression, neuropathy, spasticity, and microcephaly, less frequently seizures, movement disorder, hearing loss, and respiratory failure. Brain imaging may show abnormalities of the corpus callosum, basal ganglia, and midbrain, cerebral or cerebellar atrophy, or white matter abnormalities. The condition is frequently fatal at an early age.

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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