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Rett Syndrome (medical condition): Autism-like behavioral syndrome in infant girls...more »
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Rett Syndrome: Progressive encephalopathy occurring almost exclusively in females. The affected children are generally born clinically normal in most but not all cases. Their neurological and mental development begins to stagnate between the ages of 7 and 18 months with slowing down of the growth of head circumference and a rapid deterioration of brain functions marked by autistic behavior, dementia, apraxia of gait, loss of facial expression, deterioration of purposeful use of hands, ataxia, and severe dementia. There is an intermediate period of relative stable mental status, sometimes lasting several decades, which is followed by further neurological degradation, marked mainly by spasticity of the lower limbs and epilepsy.
Source: Diseases Database
Rett Syndrome: progressive disorder affecting the cerebral cortex of females; present from birth; manifested by autistic behavior, ataxia, dementia, seizures, loss of purposeful usefulness of the hands, cerebral atrophy, and mild hyperammonemia.
Source: CRISP
Rett Syndrome: An inherited neurological developmental disorder that is associated with X-LINKED INHERITANCE and may be lethal in utero to hemizygous males. The affected female is normal until the age of 6-25 months when progressive loss of voluntary control of hand movements and communication skills; ATAXIA; SEIZURES; autistic behavior; intermittent HYPERVENTILATION; and HYPERAMMONEMIA appear. (From Menkes, Textbook of Child Neurology, 5th ed, p199).
Source: MeSH 2007
These medical condition or symptom topics may be relevant to medical information for Rett Syndrome:
Rett Syndrome is listed as a "rare disease" by the Office of
Rare Diseases (ORD) of the National Institutes of Health
(NIH). This means that Rett Syndrome, or a subtype of Rett Syndrome,
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 if affects 1 person per 2,000.
They list Rett Syndrome as a "rare disease".
Source - Orphanet
Rett Syndrome: Another name for Rett's syndrome (or close medical condition association).
»Introduction: Rett's syndrome
»Symptoms of Rett's syndrome
»Treatments for Rett's syndrome
Rett Syndrome: Rett Syndrome is listed as a type of (or associated with) the following medical conditions in our database:
Some of the symptoms of Rett Syndrome incude:
See full list of 59 symptoms of Rett Syndrome (Rett's syndrome)
Treatments for Rett Syndrome (Rett's syndrome) include:
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Treatment of Rett Syndrome: For more treatment information about Rett Syndrome, see treatment of Rett's syndrome (Rett Syndrome)
Rett syndrome is a progressive neurological disorder in which individuals exhibit reduced... (Source: excerpt from NINDS Rett Syndrome Information Page: NINDS)
Rett syndrome is a progressive neurological disorder in which individuals exhibit reduced muscle... (Source: excerpt from NINDS Rett Syndrome Information Page: NINDS)
These medical disease topics may be related to Rett Syndrome:
Source: Diseases Database
Source - NIH
Source - MeSH 2007
Source - MeSH 2007
Source - MeSH 2007
Source - CRISP
Source: CRISP
The following list attempts to classify Rett Syndrome into categories where each line is subset of the next.
Source: Diseases Database
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