Alper's Disease

Introduction: Alper's Disease

Description of Alper's Disease

Alper's Disease (medical condition): A rare syndrome characterized by liver disease, seizures and progressive, episodic psychomotor retardation.

See also:

Alpers Syndrome:
  »Introduction: Alpers Syndrome
  »Symptoms of Alpers Syndrome
  »Treatments for Alpers Syndrome

Alper's Disease: SYN: poliodystrophia cerebri progressiva infantilis.
Source: Stedman's Medical Spellchecker, © 2006 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. All rights reserved.

Alper's Disease: Related Topics

These medical condition or symptom topics may be relevant to medical information for Alper's Disease:

• Alper's

Alper's Disease: Rare Disease

Office of Rare Diseases (ORD) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Alper's Disease is listed as a "rare disease" by the Office of Rare Diseases (ORD) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This means that Alper's Disease, or a subtype of Alper's Disease, affects less than 200,000 people in the US population.
Source - National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Alper's Disease as a Disease

Alper's Disease: Another name for Alpers Syndrome (or close medical condition association).
  »Introduction: Alpers Syndrome
  »Symptoms of Alpers Syndrome
  »Treatments for Alpers Syndrome

Alper's Disease: Related Diseases

Alper's Disease: Alper's Disease is listed as a type of (or associated with) the following medical conditions in our database:

• Brain conditions
• Genetic Disease
• Autosomal Genetic Diseases
• Autosomal Recessive Genetic Diseases
• Recessive Genetic Diseases
• Carrier conditions

Symptoms of Alper's Disease (Alpers Syndrome)

Some of the symptoms of Alper's Disease incude:

• Infantile onset of symptoms
• Intractable seizures
• Developmental delay
• Missed developmental milestones
• Progressive mental retardation

See full list of 45 symptoms of Alper's Disease (Alpers Syndrome)

Treatments for Alper's Disease (Alpers Syndrome)

Treatments for Alper's Disease (Alpers Syndrome) include:

• Symptomatic and supportive treatments
• Anticonvulsants - for seizures
• Physical therapy - for spasticity and muscle problems.

Read more about treatments for Alper's Disease

Treatment of Alper's Disease: For more treatment information about Alper's Disease, see treatment of Alpers Syndrome (Alper's Disease)

Alper's Disease: Article Excerpts about Alpers Syndrome

Alpers' disease is a rare, progressive neurodegenerative disease of the brain that occurs in infants and children. (Source: excerpt from NINDS Alpers' Disease Information Page: NINDS)

Alpers' disease is a rare, progressive neurodegenerative disease of the brain that occurs in infants and children. (Source: excerpt from NINDS Alpers' Disease Information Page: NINDS)

Alper's Disease: Related Disease Topics

These medical disease topics may be related to Alper's Disease:

• spongioform encephalopathy
• fatal familial insomnia
• chronic wasting disease
• Gerstmann- Straussler Scheinker syndrome
• Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease

Terms associated with Alper's Disease:

Terms Similar to Alper's Disease:

• Progressive infantile poliodystrophy

Source: Diseases Database

• AD
• Progressive sclerosing poliodystrophy

Source - NIH

External links related to: Alper's Disease

• Alpers' disease (www.whonamedit.com)
• OMIM - ALPERS DIFFUSE DEGENERATION OF CEREBRAL GRAY MATTER WITH HEPATIC CIRRHOSIS

Source: Diseases Database

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