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  2. Congenital insensitivity to pain - Wikipedia

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    Congenital insensitivity to pain (CIP), also known as congenital analgesia, is one or more extraordinarily rare conditions in which a person cannot feel (and has never felt) physical pain. [1] The conditions described here are separate from the HSAN group of disorders, which have more specific signs and cause.

  3. Marsili syndrome - Wikipedia

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    1960: Ervin and Sternbach describe 6 members from a 2-generation family with dominantly-inherited congenital insensitivity to pain. [ 4 ] 1974: Comings and Amromin describe 3 members from a 2-generation family which consisted of a mother, her son and her daughter with the symptoms characteristic of Marsili syndrome, there was a possibility that ...

  4. Congenital insensitivity to pain with anhidrosis - Wikipedia

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    Those affected are unable to feel pain and temperature. [2] [3] The absence of pain experienced by people with CIPA puts them at high risk for accidental self-injury. Corneal ulceration occurs due to lack of protective impulses. [4] Joint and bone problems are common due to repeated injuries, and wounds heal poorly. [5]

  5. Talk : Congenital insensitivity to pain with anhidrosis

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    Congenital Insensitivity to Pain (CIP) is a genetic disorder causing channelopathy while Congenital Insensitivity to Pain with Anhydrosis (CIPA) is a genetic disorder of affecting the formation of nerve growth factor, or other genetic disorders.

  6. Familial dysautonomia - Wikipedia

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    Familial dysautonomia (FD), also known as Riley–Day syndrome, is a rare, [2] progressive, [3] recessive genetic disorder of the autonomic nervous system [2] that affects the development and survival of sensory, sympathetic, and some parasympathetic neurons in the autonomic and sensory nervous system.

  7. A Life Without Pain - Wikipedia

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    The film explores the daily lives of three children with Congenital insensitivity to pain, a rare genetic disorder shared by just a hundred people in the world. [2] Three-year-old Gabby from Minnesota, 7-year-old Miriam from Norway and 10-year-old Jamilah from Germany have to be carefully guarded by their parents so they don't suffer serious, life-altering injuries.

  8. Local anesthesia - Wikipedia

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    Local anesthesia is any technique to induce the absence of sensation in a specific part of the body, [1] generally for the aim of inducing local analgesia, i.e. local insensitivity to pain, although other local senses may be affected as well. It allows patients to undergo surgical and dental procedures with

  9. Hereditary sensory and autonomic neuropathy - Wikipedia

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    Type 4, congenital insensitivity to pain with anhidrosis (CIPA), is an autosomal recessive condition and affected infants present with episodes of hyperthermia unrelated to environmental temperature, anhidrosis and insensitivity to pain. Palmar skin is thickened and charcot joints are commonly present.