Common causes of Fingernail symptoms

Causes of Fingernail symptoms that are very common

The following causes of Fingernail symptoms are diseases or medical conditions that affect more than 10 million people in the USA:

• COPD - blue nails
• Iron deficiency anemia - brittle nails

Causes of Fingernail symptoms that are common

The following causes of Fingernail symptoms are diseases or conditions that affect more than 1 million people in the USA:

• Anemia - brittle nails
• Ingrown nails - nail tenderness
• Psoriasis - nail rash

Causes of Fingernail symptoms that are uncommon

The following causes of Fingernail symptoms are diseases or conditions that affect more than 200,000 people, but less than 1 million people in the USA:

• Pernicious anemia - brittle nails
• Sickle Cell Anemia - brittle nails

Causes of Fingernail symptoms that are rare

The offical US government definition of a "rare" disease is one that affects 200,000 people or less. The following causes of Fingernail symptoms appear in the population at a rate of less than 200,000 people per year in the USA:

• Soto's Syndrome - brittle fingernails
• Williams Syndrome - hypoplastic nails

Causes of Fingernail symptoms that are very rare

The following causes of Fingernail symptoms appear in the population at a rate of substantially less than 200,000 people per year in the USA:

• Dermatomyositis - visible capillary loops under nail
• Edwards Syndrome - hypoplastic nails
• Kawasaki disease - pale nails
• Melanoma - Darkened area under nail
• Reiter’s syndrome - thick fingernails
• Trichinosis - hemorrhages under nails
• Turner Syndrome - hypoplastic nails

Causes of Fingernail symptoms without any prevalence information

The following causes of Fingernail symptoms are ones for which we do not have any prevalence information.

• Acanthokeratodermia - thickened nails
• Achrestic anemia - brittle nails
• Acrofacial dysostosis, Weyers type - nail dysplasia
• Acroosteolysis neurogenic - thick fingernails
• Amelo-onycho-hypohidrotic syndrome - hyperconvex nails
• Anemia - brittle nails
• Anemia, hypochromic microcytic - brittle nails
• Anemia, Iron-Deficiency - brittle nails
• Anonychia - microcephaly - absent nails
• Anonychia - onychodystrophy - absent nails
• Anonychia onychodystrophy brachydactyly type b - absent nails
• Anonychia-onychodystrophy with brachydactyly type B and ectrodactyly - absent nails
• Antley-Bixler Syndrome - narrow nails
• Antley-Bixler-like syndrome - ambiguous genitalia - disordered steroidogenesis - narrow nails
• Aplasia/hypoplasia of pelvis, femur, fibula, and ulna with abnormal digits and nails - absent nails
• Athlete's foot - toenail hardening
• Baughman syndrome - thin nails
• Biemond syndrome type 3 - thickened nails
• Brachydactyly type B - absent nails
• Bullous dystrophy, macular type - abnormal nails
• Cataract and congenital ichthyosis - abnormal nails
• Cataract, alopecia, sclerodactyly - thick fingernails
• Chemical pneumonia - blue toenails
• Chitayat Meunier Hodgkinson syndrome - hyperconvex nails
• Chloramphenicol-induced Sideroblastic anemia - brittle nails
• Chondroectodermal dysplasia - hypoplastic nails
• Christianson Fourie syndrome - abnormal nails
• Chromosome 10p terminal deletion syndrome - thin nails
• Chromosome 19p duplication syndrome - hypoplastic nails
• Chromosome 21, tetrasomy 21q - hypoplastic nails
• Chromosome 3, trisomy 3q - hypoplastic nails
• Chromosome 5, trisomy 5q - Hyperconvex nails
• Chromosome 5q duplication syndrome - hyperconvex nails
• Chromosome 8, monosomy 8p - abnormal nails
• Chromosome 8p inverted duplication syndrome - hypoplastic nails
• Chromosome 9 trisomy syndrome - hyperconvex nails
• Chromosome 9, trisomy - Hyperconvex nails
• Chronic anemia - brittle nails
• Clouston syndrome - nail hypoplasia
• Congenital spherocytic anemia - brittle nails
• Copper deficiency-induced Sideroblastic anemia - brittle nails
• Corpus callosum agenesis - blepharophimosis - Robin sequence - thin nails
• Corpus callosum, agenesis of, blepharophimosis Robin type - thin nails
• Cortical hyperostosis-syndactyly - absent nails
• Costello syndrome - thin nails
• Cycloserine-induced Sideroblastic anemia - brittle nails
• Deafness - onychodystrophy - osteodystrophy - mental retardation - absent nails
• Deafness onychodystrophy dominant form - abnormal nails
• Deafness, congenital onychodystrophy, recessive form - absent nails
• Del(1) (23-q25) - abnormal nails
• Deletion 10pter - Thin nails
• Deletion 8p - abnormal nails
• Digitorenocerebral syndrome - absent nails
• Dimorphic anemia - brittle nails
• Drug-induced Sideroblastic anemia - brittle nails
• Duplication 5q - Hyperconvex nails
• Dyserythropoietic anemia, congenital type 1 - thin nails
• Dyshidrotic dermatitis - thickened nails
• Dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa - absent nails
• Ectodermal dysplasia - brittle nails
• Ectodermal dysplasia anhidrotic - abnormal nails
• Ectodermal dysplasia mental retardation syndactyly - curved nails
• Ectodermal dysplasia trichoodontoonychial type - abnormal nails
• Ectrodactyly - Ectodermal Dysplasia - Cleft Lip/Palate Syndrome, Type 1 - abnormal nails
• Ectrodactyly - Ectodermal Dysplasia - Cleft Lip/Palate Syndrome, Type 3 - abnormal nails
• Ectrodactyly ectrodermal dysplasia - brittle nails
• EEC syndrome - nail dysplasia
• Epidermolysis bullosa simplex with mottled pigmentation - curved nails
• Epidermolysis bullosa simplex, Ogna type - curved big toenails
• Epidermolysis bullosa, dermolytic - absent nails
• Epidermolysis bullosa, junctional - absent nails
• Epidermolysis bullosa, pretibial - nail abnormality
• Ethanol-induced Sideroblastic anemia - brittle nails
• Faciothoracogenital syndrome - thin nails
• Fairbank disease - narrow nails
• Fibular hypoplasia or aplasia - femoral bowing - oligodactyly - thin nails
• Finlay-Markes syndrome - brittle fingernails
• Fitzsimmons-McLachlan-Gilbert syndrome - nail abnormality
• FLOTCH syndrome - white nails
• Focal dermal hypoplasia - hypoplastic nails
• Folate-deficiency anemia - brittle nails
• Friedel Heid Grosshans syndrome - white nails
• Fryns Syndrome - absent nails
• Fuhrmann syndrome - thin nails
• Fuhrmann-Rieger-de Sousa syndrome - thin nails
• Fukuda-Miyanomae-Nakata syndrome - thin nails
• Fungal nail infections - brown nails
• Generalized pustular psoriasis - thickened nails
• Gorlin-Bushkell-Jensen syndrome - white nails
• Gräsbeck-Imerslund disease - brittle nails
• Halal Setton Wang syndrome - abnormal nails
• Hay-Wells Syndrome - absent nails
• Hay-Wells syndrome, recessive type - absent nails
• Hemolytic anemia - brittle nails
• Hereditary hypothyroidism - Brittle finger nails
• Hereditary koilonychia - concave nails
• Hidrotic ectodermal dysplasia, type Christianson-Fourie - abnormal nails
• Hutchinson Gilford Syndrome - hypoplastic nails
• Hyperchromic Anemia - brittle nails
• Hypodontia - nail dysgenesis - brittle nails
• Hypodontia dysplasia of nails - brittle nails
• Hypomelanosis of Ito - nail hypoplasia
• Hypothyroid goitre - Brittle finger nails
• Ichthyosis - alopecia - eclabion - ectropion - mental retardation - abnormal nails
• Imerslünd-Grasbeck Syndrome - brittle nails
• Inherited spherocytic anemia - brittle nails
• Isoniazid-induced Sideroblastic anemia - brittle nails
• Jadassohn-Lewandowsky syndrome - abnormal nails
• Jeune syndrome - nail dysplasia
• Jugular lymphatic obstruction sequence - hyperconvex nails
• Kawasaki disease - pale nails
• Keratosis focal - palmoplantar, gingival - abnormal nails
• Knuckle pads, leukonychia and sensorineural deafness - white nails
• Kumar levick syndrome - abnormal nails
• Leprechaunism - nail dysplasia
• Leukonychia totalis - white nails
• Leukonychia totalis - trichilemmal cysts - cilliary dystrophy - white nails
• Limb-mammary syndrome - abnormal nails
• Lymphedema - ptosis - abnormal nails
• Macrocytic anemia - brittle nails
• Macrocytic Hyperchromic Anemia - brittle nails
• Manouvrier syndrome - abnormal nails
• Marinesco-Sjögren I - thin nails
• Megaloblastic Anemia 1 - brittle nails
• Megalocytic-Normochromic anemia - brittle nails
• Mental retardation, Buenos Aires type - abnormal nails
• Methahemoglobinemia - blue nails
• Micrencephaly corpus callosum agenesis - hyperconvex nails
• Microcytic Anemia - brittle nails
• Microcytic Hyperchromic Anemia - brittle nails
• Microcytic hypochromic anemia - brittle nails
• Microcytic-Normochromic anemia - brittle nails
• Moloney syndrome - abnormal nails
• Nail conditions - Brittle nails
• Nail dysplasia, isolated congenital - abnormal nails
• Nail-Patella Syndrome - nail hypoplasia
• Non-hereditary spherocytic anemia - brittle nails
• Normochromic anemia - brittle nails
• Normocytic anemia - brittle nails
• Normocytic-Normochromic anemia - brittle nails
• Nutritional anemia - brittle nails
• Nutritional Sideroblastic anemia - brittle nails
• Oculo tricho dysplasia - brittle nails
• Odonto-tricho-ungual-digito-palmarn syndrome - abnormal nails
• Odontomicronychial dysplasia - thin nails
• Odontoonychodermal dysplasia - abnormal nails
• OLEDAID - abnormal nails
• Onchyomycosis - split nails
• Onycho-tricho-dysplasia - neutropenia - brittle nails
• Onychodystrophy - deafness - absent nails
• Onychodystrophy and anonychia with type B brachydactyly and ectrodactyly - absent nails
• Onychotrichodysplasia and neutropenia - brittle nails
• Onychotrichodysplasia, chronic neutropenia and mental retardation syndrome - brittle nails
• Oro acral syndrome - abnormal nails
• Pachyonychia congenita recessive - white nails
• Pachyonychia congenital syndrome - hypoplastic nails
• Pachyonychia congenital syndrome type II - hypoplastic nails
• Pallister-Hall Syndrome - nail dysplasia
• Palmoplantar keratoderma punctate, hereditary - abnormal nails
• Paronychia - red toenail skin
• Patel-Bixler syndrome - abnormal nails
• Pectus excavatum macrocephaly dysplastic nails - abnormal nails
• Pernicious anemia - brittle nails
• POEMS syndrome - white nails
• Poikilocytic anemia - brittle nails
• Popliteal pterygium syndrome, lethal type - absent nails
• Primary hypothyroidism - Brittle finger nails
• Proud-Levine-Carpenter syndrome - abnormal nails
• Proximal subungual onychomycosis - split nails
• Pterygium, Popliteal, lethal type - absent nails
• Pyridoxine deficiency-induced Sideroblastic anemia - brittle nails
• Rabson-Mendenhall syndrome - abnormal nails
• Robinow syndrome, autosomal recessive - nail dysplasia
• Robinow syndrome, recessive form - nail dysplasia
• Robinson-Miller-Bensimon syndrome - absent nails
• Scalp - ear - nipple syndrome - brittle fingernails
• Schinzel Giedion Syndrome - hyperconvex nails
• Schäfer syndrome - thickened nails
• Sclerosteosis - nail dysplasia
• Secondary hypothyroidism - Brittle finger nails
• Selective Vitamin B12 malabsorption with Proteinuria - brittle nails
• Selenium poisoning - brittle nails
• Sener syndrome - abnormal nails
• Septooptic dysplasia - digital anomalies - absent nails
• Sickle Cell Anemia - brittle nails
• Sideroblastic anemia - brittle nails
• Sideroblastic anemia, hereditary - brittle nails
• Sideroblastic anemia, pyridoxine-responsive, autosomal recessive - brittle nails
• Sideropenic anemia - brittle nails
• Simpson-Golabi-Behmel syndrome - nail hypoplasia
• Spherocytic anemia - brittle nails
• Taurodontia - absent teeth - sparse hair - thin nails
• TDO type II - brittle nails
• Teebi-Kaurah syndrome - absent nails
• Tertiary hypothyroidism - Brittle finger nails
• Thumb deformity, alopecia, pigmentation anomaly - thick fingernails
• Tinea - green nails
• Tooth and Nail syndrome - brittle nails
• Toxin-induced Sideroblastic anemia - brittle nails
• Trichinosis - hemorrhages under nails
• Tricho-dento-osseous syndrome - brittle nails
• Tricho-dento-osseous syndrome type I - brittle nails
• Trichorhinophalangeal syndrome type 1 - thin nails
• Trigonocephaly - bifid nose - acral anomalies - absent nails
• Trisomy 22 mosaicism - abnormal nails
• Tuffli-Laxova syndrome - abnormal nails
• Unusual facies and autosomal dominant hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia - thin nails
• Ventruto Digirolamo Festa syndrome - absent nails
• Vitamin B12 Deficiency - brittle nails
• Watermelon stomach - Brittle nails
• Weaver Syndrome - thin nails
• Witkop syndrome - Hypoplastic nails
• X-linked sideroblastic anemia - brittle nails
• Yellow nail syndrome - cross ridges on nails
• Yunis Varon syndrome - nail hypoplasia
• Zanier-Roubicek syndrome - brittle nails
• Zimmerman-Laband syndrome - absent nails

All Causes of Fingernail symptoms

The full list of all possible causes for Fingernail symptoms described in various sources is as follows:

• Acanthokeratodermia - thickened nails
• Achrestic anemia - brittle nails
• Acrofacial dysostosis, Weyers type - nail dysplasia
• Acroosteolysis neurogenic - thick fingernails
• Amelo-onycho-hypohidrotic syndrome - hyperconvex nails

See full list of possible disease causes of Fingernail symptoms

Drug side effect causes of Fingernail symptoms

• Acitretin
• Soriatane
• Neotigason

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