Conditions / Nervous system
Huntington's disease
info · Nervous system · ICD-10: G10
A neurodegenerative disease that has_material_basis_in autosomal dominant inheritance and is characterized by unwanted choreatic movements, behavioral and psychiatric disturbances and dementia and has_material_basis_in expansion of CAG triplet repeats (glutami
A neurodegenerative disease that has_material_basis_in autosomal dominant inheritance and is characterized by unwanted choreatic movements, behavioral and psychiatric disturbances and dementia and has_material_basis_in expansion of CAG triplet repeats (glutamine) resulting in neuron degeneration affecting muscle coordination, cognitive abilities.
Signs and symptoms
- Bradykinesia
- Abnormality of eye movement
- Seizure
- Cerebellar atrophy
- Gait ataxia
- Chorea
- Gliosis
- Depression
- Dementia
- Neuronal loss in central nervous system
Medications that may treat it
baclofen perphenazine pimozide tetrabenazine ubidecarenone
Also known as: HD; Huntington disease; Huntington's chorea