A 5-year-old Palestinian Bedouin girl with repeated self-induced injuries to the digits, a diagnosis of congenital insensitivity to pain, and anhidrosis - Hanatleh OM, Kofahi NK, Aburahma SK, Bintareef EM, Al-Bashtawy M, Alkhawaldeh A, Ibnian AM.

BACKGROUND Congenital insensitivity to pain with anhidrosis (CIPA), also referred to as hereditary sensory and autonomic neuropathy type IV, is a rare autosomal recessive disease caused by mutations in the NTRK1 gene. The inability to feel pain and tempera...
Source: SafetyLit - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Infants and Children Source Type: news