Walker-Warburg Syndrome: A rare inherited disorder characterized by brain malformations and retinal and muscle abnormalities. More detailed information about the symptoms, causes, and treatments of Walker-Warburg Syndrome is available below.
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Prognosis for Walker-Warburg Syndrome: 65% die within 3 months and no survivors beyond 1 year
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A lissencephaly syndrome characterized by smoothness of the surface of the brain (lissencephaly type II), agyria, thickening of the cortex, and other brain abnormalities in association with severe mental retardation, eye defects, genitourinary abnormalities, hydronephrosis, and other defects with or without encephalocele (written plus or minus E). Many characteristics of this syndrome overlap those of the cerebro-oculo-cerebral syndrome. - (Source - Diseases Database)
Walker-Warburg Syndrome is listed as a "rare disease" by the Office of
Rare Diseases (ORD) of the National Institutes of Health
(NIH). This means that Walker-Warburg Syndrome, or a subtype of Walker-Warburg Syndrome,
affects less than 200,000 people in the US population.
Source - National Institutes of Health (NIH)
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