[A family of hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy with spastic paraplegia (HMSN type V) presenting with phenotypic uniformity including onset in early childhood].
The proband was a 38 year old mother, who had begun to walk abnormally at one year old. She developed weakness and wasting in the intrinsic hand muscles in the third decades. On neurological examinations, she showed weakness with atrophy in the distal muscles of the upper and lower limbs, mild impairment of deep sensation in the feet, and severe spastic gait with scissoring. Deep tendon reflexes were hypoactive in the arms and at the ankles, and brisk at the knees. Babinski sign was present bilaterally. Nerve conduction studies revealed mild slowing of conduction velocities and reduction of muscle and sensory action potential amplitudes. Sural nerve biopsy showed a prominent decrease in myelinated fiber density, especially in the large fibers. Neither demyelination nor typical onion-bulb was found. Results of gene analysis of PMP-22 was negative. Her two daughters, 14- and 11-year-old, respectively, also presented with gait disturbance from the beginning of walking at one year old and had almost the same clinical manifestations as their mother, indicating autosomal dominant inheritance. This family of the hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy with spastic paraplegia (HMSN type V) was distinctive in having phenotypic uniformity including onset in early childhood.
Yamashita
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Department of Neurology, Osaka Saiseikai Nakatsu Hospital, Japan.
Yamamoto
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Oka
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D017668:Age of Onset; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010641:Phenotype; D015419:Spastic Paraplegia, Hereditary / Q000235:genetics* / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology; D013497:Sural Nerve / Q000473:pathology