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congenital insensitivity to pain with anhidrosis

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A hereditary sensory and autonomic neuropathy characterized by insensitivity to pain and anhidrosis that has_material_basis_in homozygous or compound heterozygous mutation in the NTRK1 gene on chromosome 1q23.

Signs and symptoms

  • Pain insensitivity
  • Intellectual disability
  • Anhidrosis
  • Recurrent fever
  • Self-mutilation
  • Emotional lability
  • Hyperactivity
  • Opacification of the corneal stroma
  • Poor wound healing
  • Nail dysplasia

Also known as: CIPA; HSAN4; familial dysautonomia type II; hereditary sensory and autonomic neuropathy type 4; hereditary sensory and autonomic neuropathy type IV