Rare diseases · Sign or symptom
Progressive gait ataxia
HP:0007240
What it means
A type of gait ataxia displaying progression of clinical severity.
Rare diseases that can present with this30
Very common80–99%
4Common30–79%
23- 4H leukodystrophy
- Adult-onset autosomal recessive cerebellar ataxia
- Autosomal dominant spastic paraplegia type 9B
- Autosomal recessive ataxia due to PEX10 deficiency
- Autosomal recessive cerebellar ataxia-pyramidal signs-nystagmus-oculomotor apraxia syndrome
- Autosomal recessive spastic ataxia-optic atrophy-dysarthria syndrome
- Caribbean parkinsonism
- Childhood-onset autosomal recessive slowly progressive spinocerebellar ataxia
- Cockayne syndrome
- Early-onset cerebellar ataxia with retained tendon reflexes
- Familial or sporadic hemiplegic migraine
- Huntington disease-like 3
- Infantile-onset autosomal recessive nonprogressive cerebellar ataxia
- Machado-Joseph disease type 1
- Machado-Joseph disease type 2
- Machado-Joseph disease type 3
- Metachromatic leukodystrophy, late infantile form
- Myoclonus-cerebellar ataxia-deafness syndrome
- NARP syndrome
- Niemann-Pick disease type C
- Spectrin-associated autosomal recessive cerebellar ataxia
- Superficial siderosis
- X-linked progressive cerebellar ataxia
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: Gait ataxia, progressive
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