Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease with deafness and mental retardation

Introduction: Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease with deafness and mental retardation

Description of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease with deafness and mental retardation

Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease with deafness and mental retardation (medical condition): CMT is an inherited neurological disease characterized by the gradual degeneration of nerves which starts in the hands and feet and results in progressive numbness, muscle weakness and loss of function. Type 4X is an inherited defect of the X chromosome and affects males to a greater degree than females and also involves mental retardation and deafness.

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Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, X-linked recessive, 4:
  »Introduction: Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, X-linked recessive, 4
  »Symptoms of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, X-linked recessive, 4

Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease with deafness and mental retardation: Related Topics

These medical condition or symptom topics may be relevant to medical information for Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease with deafness and mental retardation:

• Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease
• Charcot-Marie
• Mental retardation (1917 causes)
• Charcot
• Marie
• Tooth
• Deafness (952 causes)
• Mental

Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease with deafness and mental retardation: Rare Disease

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

Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease with deafness and mental retardation is listed as a "rare disease" by the Office of Rare Diseases (ORD) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This means that Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease with deafness and mental retardation, or a subtype of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease with deafness and mental retardation, affects less than 200,000 people in the US population.
Source - National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease with deafness and mental retardation as a Disease

Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease with deafness and mental retardation: Another name for Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, X-linked recessive, 4 (or close medical condition association).
  »Introduction: Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, X-linked recessive, 4
  »Symptoms of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, X-linked recessive, 4

Symptoms of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease with deafness and mental retardation (Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, X-linked recessive, 4)

Some of the symptoms of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease with deafness and mental retardation incude:

• Deafness
• Mental retardation
• Muscle weakness in extremities
• Reduced nerve conduction speed
• Wasted muscles in extremities

See full list of 9 symptoms of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease with deafness and mental retardation (Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, X-linked recessive, 4)

Terms associated with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease with deafness and mental retardation:

Terms Similar to Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease with deafness and mental retardation:

• Cowchock syndrome
• NADMR
• NAMSD
• Neuropathy, axonal motor-sensory, with deafness and mental retardation

Source - NIH

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