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FAMILIAL DYSAUTONOMIA IN A NON–JEWISH CHILD
Author(s) -
ØRBECK HARALD,
OFTEDAL GUNNAR
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
acta pædiatrica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.772
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1651-2227
pISSN - 0803-5253
DOI - 10.1111/j.1651-2227.1977.tb07988.x
Subject(s) - medicine , dysautonomia , pathological , familial dysautonomia , norwegian , pediatrics , disease , pathogenesis , judaism , spinal cord , pathology , psychiatry , linguistics , philosophy , archaeology , history
. Few documented cases of Riley‐Day syndrome fulfilling current diagnostic criteria have been recognized in non‐Jews. In our case the diagnosis was established in a Norwegian child despite the absence of Jewish origin. It represents a report of this syndrome with bilateral pathological changes in the hypothalamus in addition to extensive abnormal findings in the spinal cord and the autonomic ganglia. These findings may have significance with regard to the pathogenesis of the disease.