Rare diseases · Sign or symptom
Progressive cerebellar ataxia
HP:0002073
Rare diseases that can present with this61
Very common80–99%
29- Adult-onset autosomal recessive cerebellar ataxia
- Autosomal recessive ataxia due to PEX10 deficiency
- Autosomal recessive ataxia due to ubiquinone deficiency
- Autosomal recessive cerebellar ataxia-movement disorder syndrome
- Autosomal recessive cerebellar ataxia-pyramidal signs-nystagmus-oculomotor apraxia syndrome
- Autosomal recessive cerebellar ataxia with late-onset spasticity
- Autosomal recessive spastic paraplegia type 78
- Childhood-onset autosomal recessive slowly progressive spinocerebellar ataxia
- Dentatorubral pallidoluysian atrophy
- Early-onset cerebellar ataxia with retained tendon reflexes
- Infantile-onset autosomal recessive nonprogressive cerebellar ataxia
- Machado-Joseph disease type 1
- Machado-Joseph disease type 2
- Machado-Joseph disease type 3
- Spectrin-associated autosomal recessive cerebellar ataxia
- Spinocerebellar ataxia type 1
- Spinocerebellar ataxia type 10
- Spinocerebellar ataxia type 11
- Spinocerebellar ataxia type 2
- Spinocerebellar ataxia type 21
- Spinocerebellar ataxia type 23
- Spinocerebellar ataxia type 25
- Spinocerebellar ataxia type 26
- Spinocerebellar ataxia type 3
- Spinocerebellar ataxia type 34
- Spinocerebellar ataxia type 35
- Spinocerebellar ataxia type 6
- X-linked progressive cerebellar ataxia
- X-linked spinocerebellar ataxia type 4
Common30–79%
24- Acute infantile liver failure-cerebellar ataxia-peripheral sensory motor neuropathy syndrome
- Arnold-Chiari malformation type I
- Autosomal recessive spastic ataxia of Charlevoix-Saguenay
- Autosomal recessive spastic ataxia-optic atrophy-dysarthria syndrome
- Autosomal recessive spastic ataxia with leukoencephalopathy
- Autosomal recessive spinocerebellar ataxia-blindness-deafness syndrome
- Cerebellar ataxia with neuropathy and bilateral vestibular areflexia syndrome
- De Barsy syndrome
- Frontotemporal dementia with motor neuron disease
- Hyperornithinemia-hyperammonemia-homocitrullinuria syndrome
- Inherited Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
- ITM2B amyloidosis
- Leukoencephalopathy with brain stem and spinal cord involvement-high lactate syndrome
- Medulloblastoma
- Mitochondrial myopathy-cerebellar ataxia-pigmentary retinopathy syndrome
- Multiple system atrophy
- Multiple system atrophy, cerebellar type
- Myoclonus-cerebellar ataxia-deafness syndrome
- Spinocerebellar ataxia type 14
- Spinocerebellar ataxia type 32
- Spinocerebellar ataxia with epilepsy
- Spinocerebellar degeneration-corneal dystrophy syndrome
- Wolfram-like syndrome
- Wrinkly skin syndrome
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: Cerebellar ataxia, progressive · Progressive ataxia
Progressive cerebellar ataxia
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