Rare diseases · Sign or symptom
Frequent falls
HP:0002359
Rare diseases that can present with this66
Common30–79%
38- Acute infantile liver failure-cerebellar ataxia-peripheral sensory motor neuropathy syndrome
- Adult-onset distal myopathy due to VCP mutation
- Alpha-sarcoglycan-related limb-girdle muscular dystrophy R3
- Autosomal dominant Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 2A2
- Autosomal recessive axonal Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease due to copper metabolism defect
- Autosomal recessive axonal neuropathy with neuromyotonia
- Autosomal recessive cerebellar ataxia due to CWF19L1 deficiency
- Autosomal recessive Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease with hoarseness
- Autosomal recessive spastic ataxia-optic atrophy-dysarthria syndrome
- Autosomal recessive spastic paraplegia type 35
- Autosomal spastic paraplegia type 58
- Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 4C
- Classic pantothenate kinase-associated neurodegeneration
- Congenital cerebellar ataxia due to RNU12 mutation
- Congenital muscular dystrophy without intellectual disability
- Episodic ataxia type 4
- Facioscapulohumeral dystrophy
- Gamma-sarcoglycan-related limb-girdle muscular dystrophy R5
- Hereditary late-onset Parkinson disease
- Infantile-onset generalized dyskinesia with orofacial involvement
- Late-infantile/juvenile Krabbe disease
- Metachromatic leukodystrophy
- Metachromatic leukodystrophy, adult form
- Metachromatic leukodystrophy, juvenile form
- Metachromatic leukodystrophy, late infantile form
- Mitochondrial membrane protein-associated neurodegeneration
- Multiple system atrophy
- Multiple system atrophy, cerebellar type
- Multiple system atrophy, parkinsonian type
- Plectin-related limb-girdle muscular dystrophy R17
- Progressive supranuclear palsy-corticobasal syndrome
- Pure mitochondrial myopathy
- Spinal muscular atrophy-progressive myoclonic epilepsy syndrome
- Subacute inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy
- Tay-Sachs disease
- Ullrich congenital muscular dystrophy
- X-linked non progressive cerebellar ataxia
- X-linked progressive cerebellar ataxia
Sometimes5–29%
24- Adenylosuccinate synthetase-like 1-related distal myopathy
- Adult Krabbe disease
- Ataxia-telangiectasia-like disorder
- Autosomal dominant Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 2Y
- Autosomal dominant progressive external ophthalmoplegia
- Cap myopathy
- Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 4A
- Congenital myasthenic syndrome with glycosylation defect
and 16 more in this range
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Frequent falls
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