Conditions / Mental health
Rett syndrome
info · Mental health · ICD-10: F84.2
A pervasive developmental disease that is characterized by normal early growth and development followed by a slowing of development, loss of purposeful use of the hands, distinctive hand movements, slowed brain and head growth, problems with walking, seizures,
A pervasive developmental disease that is characterized by normal early growth and development followed by a slowing of development, loss of purposeful use of the hands, distinctive hand movements, slowed brain and head growth, problems with walking, seizures, and intellectual disability.
Signs and symptoms
- Seizure
- Profound intellectual disability
- Stereotypical hand wringing
- Intermittent hyperventilation
- Motor deterioration
- Developmental regression
- Hypotonia
- Generalized hypotonia
- Delayed ability to sit
- Progressive microcephaly
Medications that may treat it
Also known as: Rett's disorder; cerebroatrophic hyperammonemia