What is Tay Sachs?
What is Tay Sachs?
- Tay Sachs: Rare genetic disease leading to fatty deposits in the brain.
Tay Sachs: Introduction
Types of Tay Sachs:
Types of Tay Sachs:
Broader types of Tay Sachs:
Who gets Tay Sachs?
Patient Profile for Tay Sachs: Infants usually after 3 months for classic type. Rarer subtype affects juveniles and young adults.
Race Profile for Tay Sachs: Most common in Ashkenazi Jews.
How serious is Tay Sachs?
Prognosis of Tay Sachs: Poor. Infants usually die by age 5.
What causes Tay Sachs?
Causes of Tay Sachs: see causes of Tay Sachs
Cause of Tay Sachs: Genetic defect in hexosaminidase A leads to fatty deposits of ganglioside GM2 accumulate in the brain's nerve cells.
Risk factors for Tay Sachs:
see
risk factors for Tay Sachs
What are the symptoms of Tay Sachs?
Symptoms of Tay Sachs:
see symptoms of Tay Sachs
Can anyone else get Tay Sachs?
Inheritance:
see inheritance of Tay Sachs
Inheritance of genetic conditions: see details in inheritance of genetic diseases.
Tay Sachs: Testing
Diagnostic testing: see tests for Tay Sachs.
Misdiagnosis: see misdiagnosis and Tay Sachs.
How is it treated?
Treatments for Tay Sachs:
see treatments for Tay Sachs
Research for Tay Sachs:
see research for Tay Sachs
Organs Affected by Tay Sachs:
Organs and body systems related to Tay Sachs include:
Name and Aliases of Tay Sachs
Main name of condition: Tay Sachs
Class of Condition for Tay Sachs: genetic autosomal recessive
Other names or spellings for Tay Sachs:
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