Rare diseases · Sign or symptom
Postural tremor
HP:0002174
What it means
A type of tremors that is triggered by holding a limb in a fixed position.
Rare diseases that can present with this29
Common30–79%
14- Autosomal dominant dopa-responsive dystonia
- Autosomal dominant optic atrophy and cataract
- Autosomal dominant spastic paraplegia type 9B
- Autosomal recessive dopa-responsive dystonia
- Autosomal recessive spastic paraplegia type 9B
- Classic galactosemia
- Dystonia 16
- Multiple system atrophy
- Multiple system atrophy, cerebellar type
- Primary progressive freezing gait
- Roussy-Lévy syndrome
- Spinocerebellar ataxia type 2
- Tremor-ataxia-central hypomyelination syndrome
- X-linked spinocerebellar ataxia type 4
Sometimes5–29%
13- Autosomal dominant Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 2A2
- Autosomal dominant spastic paraplegia type 17
- Autosomal dominant spastic paraplegia type 6
- Autosomal recessive cerebellar ataxia due to STUB1 deficiency
- Autosomal spastic paraplegia type 72
- Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 4D
- Childhood-onset autosomal recessive slowly progressive spinocerebellar ataxia
- Leber hereditary optic neuropathy
and 5 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: Tremor, postural
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