A rare, congenital muscular dystrophy due to dystroglycanopathy characterized by early onset muscular dystrophy, severe muscular hypotonia, severe mental retardation and typical brain and eye malformations, including pachygyria, polymicrogyria, agyria, brainstem and cerebellar structural anomalies, severe myopia, glaucoma, optic nerve and retinal hypoplasia. Patients may present with seizures, macrocephaly or microcephaly, microphthalmia, and congenital contractures. Depending on the severity, limited motor function is acquired. Less severe cases have been reported. [ Orphanet:588 ]
Synonyms: MEB syndrome muscle-eye-brain disease Santavuori congenital muscular dystrophy muscle-eye-brain syndrome
Term information
- ICD9:742.4 (MONDO:relatedTo)
- GARD:156 (Orphanet:588)
- Orphanet:588 (MONDO:equivalentTo)
- SCTID:277950001 (MONDO:equivalentTo)
gard_rare, ordo_disease, rare, nord_rare, orphanet_rare, clingen
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/MONDO_0018869
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/MONDO_0015327
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/MONDO_0700066
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/MONDO_0016185
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/MONDO_0700068
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/MONDO_0018276
https://search.clinicalgenome.org/kb/conditions/MONDO:0018939
https://rarediseases.info.nih.gov/diseases/156/muscle-eye-brain-disease