Anaesthesia and familial dysautonomia with congenital insensitivity to pain

Congenital Insensitivity to Pain with Anhidrosis in an Iranian Patient

Congenital insensitivity to pain with anhidrosis is a rare disease of the nervous system which causes one to lose his/her feeling of pain. The disease is subtype four of hereditary sensory and autonomic neuropathy (HSAN IV) that results from NTRK1 gene defect. Direct sequencing was performed to screen NTRK1 for mutations. The result revealed a homozygous deletion of adenine on intron 14 that ma...

[Congenital insensitivity to pain with anhydrosis].

Congenital insensitivity to pain with anhydrosis (CIPA) is a rare genetic disorder characterized by inability to feel pain and temperature, and decreased or absent sweating. Familiarity to this condition is important to avoid misdiagnosing it with leprosy and other peripheral nerve diseases. An inability to feel pain may lead to repeated self-trauma (tongue, lips and finger tips) ultimately lea...

Norrbottnian congenital insensitivity to pain.

Congenital insensitivity to pain is a rare hereditary neuropathy. We present patients from a large family in Norrbotten, Sweden with a mutation in the nerve growth factor beta gene (NGFbeta). Using a model of recessive inheritance, we identified an 8.3-Mb region on chromosome 1p11.2-p13.2 shared by the affected individuals in the family. Analysis of candidate genes in the disease-critical regio...

Riley-Day Syndrome (congenital familial dysautonomia).

THIS rare disease is of particular importance to ophthalmologists because of the congenital failure of tear production and corneal anaesthesia. It was first described as an entity by Riley, Day, Greeley, and Langford (1949). Since then, many further cases have been reported (Braun-Vallon and Bessman, 1960; Levin, 1960; Laxdal, Khera, and Haworth, 1961; Thieffry, Joseph, Martin, Job, and Lorthol...

congenital insensitivity to pain with anhidrosis (cipa): a case report