X-linked spasticity-intellectual disability-epilepsy syndrome

What it is

A rare ARX-related epileptic encephalopathy characterized by infantile onset of myoclonic epilepsy with generalized spasticity, severe global developmental delay, and moderate to profound intellectual disability. Obligate female carriers show subtle, generalized hyperreflexia. Late onset progressive spastic ataxia has also been reported.

Key facts

Prevalence

<1 / 1 000 000

Age of onset

Infancy, Neonatal

Inheritance

X-linked recessive

Classified as

Disease

Prevalence figures describe populations, not individuals, and are often estimates from a single study. Where the figure is an incidence or a birth prevalence, it says so.

Signs and symptoms

These ranges are how often a sign appears across everyone diagnosed, not a prediction for one person — most people have some of these and not others. Orphanet also records findings that are specifically absent in this disease; those are in the data but not listed here.

Gene

ICD-10 codes

ICD-10 has no distinct code for most rare diseases, so many are filed under the nearest available one. A shared code identifies the group, not this disease — the ORPHAcode above is what identifies it.

Related health topics

Reached through the ICD-10 categories this disease is filed under, so these describe the broader group rather than this disease specifically.

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