Rare diseases · Sign or symptom
Aspiration pneumonia
HP:0011951
What it means
Pneumonia due to the aspiration (breathing in) of food, liquid, or gastric contents into the upper respiratory tract.
Rare diseases that can present with this30
Common30–79%
9- Alobar holoprosencephaly
- Coffin-Siris syndrome
- Cognitive impairment-coarse facies-heart defects-obesity-pulmonary involvement-short stature-skeletal dysplasia syndrome
- GM1 gangliosidosis type 1
- Lobar holoprosencephaly
- Midline interhemispheric variant of holoprosencephaly
- Progressive encephalopathy with leukodystrophy due to DECR deficiency
- Semilobar holoprosencephaly
- Tay-Sachs disease
Sometimes5–29%
18- Adult-onset autosomal dominant leukodystrophy
- Classic pantothenate kinase-associated neurodegeneration
- Cleft velum
- Congenital fiber-type disproportion myopathy
- DOORS syndrome
- Hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy, Okinawa type
- Isolated congenital hypoglossia/aglossia
- Lissencephaly due to LIS1 mutation
and 10 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.
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