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Microcephaly (from Neo-Latin microcephalia, from Ancient Greek μικρός mikrós "small" and κεφαλή kephalé "head" [2]) is a medical condition involving a smaller-than-normal head. [3] Microcephaly may be present at birth or it may develop in the first few years of life. [3]
Though rare, some persons with Trisomy 18 survive into their twenties and thirties with the current eldest being well over 50 years. Current ongoing research at the University of Michigan shows survival rate with full interventions is about 90% until the first birthday, and 80% until 5 years. [22]
Infantile cerebral and cerebellar atrophy with postnatal progressive microcephaly is a rare hereditary autosomal recessive malformation syndrome of the central nervous system characterized by profound motor delays and intellectual disabilities, progressive microcephaly, hypertonia, spasticity, clonus and epilepsy. MRI findings include severe ...
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One-, two-, and three-year survival rates of 60%, 26%, and 14%, respectively [2] Krabbe disease ( KD ) (also known as globoid cell leukodystrophy [ 3 ] or galactosylceramide lipidosis ) is a rare and often fatal lysosomal storage disease that results in progressive damage to the nervous system .
Human infectious diseases may be characterized by their case fatality rate (CFR), the proportion of people diagnosed with a disease who die from it (cf. mortality rate).It should not be confused with the infection fatality rate (IFR), the estimated proportion of people infected by a disease-causing agent, including asymptomatic and undiagnosed infections, who die from the disease.
1p36 deletion syndrome is a congenital genetic disorder characterized by moderate to severe intellectual disability, delayed growth, hypotonia, seizures, limited speech ability, malformations, hearing and vision impairment, and distinct facial features.
The combination of lissencephaly with severe congenital microcephaly is designated as microlissencephaly only when the cortex is abnormally thick. If such combination exists with a normal cortical thickness (2.5 to 3 mm [ 4 ] ), it is known as " microcephaly with simplified gyral pattern " (MSGP). [ 5 ]