background: familial dysautonomia (fd) is a rare hereditary syndrome which is an autosomal recessive trait that typically affects jewish children. important signs and symptoms of the disorder include; diminished pain perception, absence of overflow tears, hypotonia, fainting cardiac arrhythmias and autonomic crisis. cases report : in this article we reported 3 cases of fd syndrome which had pre...

Familial dysautonomia is a rare syndrome of childhood affecting the nervous system. As the name suggests, dysfunction of the autonomic system is a prominent feature. It was first recognized as a separate entity by Riley, Day, Greeley and Langford (1949), the first large series being described by Riley (1952). So far, about 70 patients have been recorded. Though the fully developed syndrome is u...

Skin fibroblasts from patients with familial dysautonomia, Duchenne muscular dystrophy and Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease show normal sensitivity to ionising radiation, as measured by post-irradiation clonal growth. Previous reports of cellular hypersensitivity to ionising radiation and other DNA-damaging agents in familial dysautonomia and Duchenne muscular dystrophy have not been confirmed.

An increased incidence of neoplasia was recently reported in patients with familial dysautonomia. This suggests that, in addition to its role in neuronal development, the IKBKAP gene may also influence DNA repair. Here we report the case of a 28-year-old male with familial dysautonomia who was found to have neoplastic lesions detected post mortem as incidental findings. This case indicates that...

FAMILIAL DYSAUTONOMIA, a rare syndrome typically involving Jewish children is probably transmitted as a simple autosomal recessive gene. 1-4 During the past 15 years, eight patients with familial dysautonomia underwent a total of 24 surgical procedures under general anaesthesia at The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto. The purpose of this paper is to review our experience with these eight pat...

OBJECTIVE Patients with familial dysautonomia have an increased risk of sudden death. In some patients with familial dysautonomia, sympathetic cardiac dysfunction is indicated by prolongation of corrected QT (QTc) interval, especially during stress tests. As many patients do not tolerate physical stress, additional indices are needed to predict autonomic risk. In familial dysautonomia there is ...

Familial dysautonomia (FD) is an autosomal recessive congenital neuropathy which results from poor development and progressive degeneration of the nervous system. The mutation responsible for FD was found at the 5�ss of intron 20 of the IKBKAP gene, encoding the I?B kinase complex-associated protein (IKAP...

Familial dysautonomia (FD) is an autosomal recessive congenital neuropathy which results from poor development and progressive degeneration of the nervous system. The mutation responsible for FD was found at the 5�ss of intron 20 of the IKBKAP gene, encoding the I?B kinase complex-associated protein (IKAP...