Rare diseases · Sign or symptom
Aspiration
HP:0002835
What it means
Inspiration of a foreign object into the airway.
Rare diseases that can present with this12
Common30–79%
3Sometimes5–29%
9- Alternating hemiplegia of childhood
- Bilateral perisylvian polymicrogyria
- Esophageal atresia
- Helsmoortel-Van der Aa syndrome
- Lissencephaly type 1 due to doublecortin gene mutation
- Rubinstein-Taybi syndrome due to CREBBP mutations
- Rubinstein-Taybi syndrome due to EP300 haploinsufficiency
- Silver-Russell syndrome due to maternal uniparental disomy of chromosome 7
and 1 more in this range
The range is how often this sign appears among people diagnosed with each disease — it is not a probability of having any of them. Many of these signs also occur in common, non-rare conditions. A sign on this page is a conversation to have with a clinician, not a conclusion.
Part of the broader category
Also called: Pulmonary aspiration
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