Hallervorden-Spatz disease: Hallervorden-Spatz disease is a rare, inherited, neurological movement disorder characterized by progressive degeneration of the nervous system. (Source: excerpt from NINDS Hallervorden-Spatz Disease Information Page: NINDS) ... more about Hallervorden-Spatz disease.
Hallervorden-Spatz disease: Nerve disorder causing movement problems. More detailed information about the symptoms, causes, and treatments of Hallervorden-Spatz disease is available below.
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Prognosis for Hallervorden-Spatz disease: Poor. Death common within 10 years.
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Hallervorden-Spatz disease is a rare, inherited, neurological movement disorder characterized by progressive degeneration of the nervous system. (Source: excerpt from NINDS Hallervorden-Spatz Disease Information Page: NINDS)
A rare neuroaxonal dystrophy, histologically characterized by axonal spheroids, iron deposition, lewy body (LB)-like intraneuronal inclusions and neurofibrillary tangles. - (Source - Diseases Database)
Hallervorden-Spatz disease is listed as a "rare disease" by the Office of
Rare Diseases (ORD) of the National Institutes of Health
(NIH). This means that Hallervorden-Spatz disease, or a subtype of Hallervorden-Spatz disease,
affects less than 200,000 people in the US population.
Source - National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Ophanet, a consortium of European partners,
currently defines a condition rare when it affects 1 person per 2,000.
They list Hallervorden-Spatz disease as a "rare disease".
Source - Orphanet
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