Conditions / Syndrome

Aicardi-Goutieres syndrome

info · Syndrome · ICD-10: G31.8

A syndrome that is a genetically heterogeneous encephalopathy characterized in its most severe form by cerebral atrophy, leukodystrophy, intracranial calcifications, chronic cerebrospinal fluid lymphocytosis, increased CSF alpha-interferon, and negative serolo

A syndrome that is a genetically heterogeneous encephalopathy characterized in its most severe form by cerebral atrophy, leukodystrophy, intracranial calcifications, chronic cerebrospinal fluid lymphocytosis, increased CSF alpha-interferon, and negative serologic investigations for common prenatal infections.

Signs and symptoms

  • Inability to walk
  • Dystonia
  • Short stature
  • Chronic CSF lymphocytosis
  • Microcephaly
  • Absent speech
  • CSF lymphocytic pleiocytosis
  • Global developmental delay
  • Cerebellar calcifications
  • Petechiae

Also known as: AGS; Cree encephalitis