Rare diseases · Sign or symptom
Gait imbalance
Abnormality of balance
HP:0002141
Rare diseases that can present with this35
Very common80–99%
6Common30–79%
14- Autosomal dominant Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 2Y
- Bilateral frontoparietal polymicrogyria
- Classic progressive supranuclear palsy syndrome
- Early-onset epilepsy-intellectual disability-brain anomalies syndrome
- FLNC-related handgrip and calf weakness-distal myopathy
- Huntington disease
- Idiopathic bilateral vestibulopathy
- Malaria
- Mal de débarquement
- Primary lateral sclerosis
- Progressive supranuclear palsy-pure akinesia with gait freezing syndrome
- Spinocerebellar ataxia type 10
- Spinocerebellar ataxia with axonal neuropathy type 2
- Usher syndrome type 1
Sometimes5–29%
15- Adult-onset chronic progressive external ophthalmoplegia with mitochondrial myopathy
- Angelman syndrome due to a point mutation
- Angelman syndrome due to maternal 15q11q13 deletion
- Angelman syndrome due to paternal uniparental disomy of chromosome 15
- Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 1A
- Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 1E
- Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 4G
- Classic galactosemia
and 7 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: Abnormality of equilibrium · Imbalanced walk
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