Rare diseases · Sign or symptom
Nasogastric tube feeding
HP:0040288
What it means
The condition of inability to eat normally treated by placement of a thin tube through the nose into the stomach that is then used to carry food.
Rare diseases that can present with this36
Common30–79%
10- Birk-Barel syndrome
- Combined immunodeficiency with facio-oculo-skeletal anomalies
- Lafora disease
- MFF-related encephalopathy due to mitochondrial and peroxisomal fission defect
- Schaaf-Yang syndrome
- Severe X-linked intellectual disability, Gustavson type
- SIM1-related Prader-Willi-like syndrome
- SLC35A2-CDG
- Temple syndrome
- X-linked cerebral-cerebellar-coloboma syndrome
Sometimes5–29%
24- Angelman syndrome
- Bartter syndrome type 4
- Bilateral generalized polymicrogyria
- Combined malonic and methylmalonic acidemia
- Combined oxidative phosphorylation defect type 27
- Congenital muscular dystrophy with intellectual disability and severe epilepsy
- Facial dysmorphism-developmental delay-behavioral abnormalities syndrome due to WAC point mutation
- Floating-Harbor syndrome
and 16 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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