Prader-Willi syndrome

Description

Prader-Willi syndrome is a rare genetic disorder characterised by hypothalamic-pituitary abnormalities with severe hypotonia during the neonatal period and first two years of life and the onset of hyperphagia with a risk of morbid obesity during infancy and adulthood, learning difficulties and behavioural problems or severe psychiatric problems.

Index terms

Prader-Willi syndrome
Willi-Prader syndrome

Exclusions from above levels

http://id.who.int/icd/entity/733825440 – Inborn errors of metabolism

Sibling codes

LD90.0 – Angelman syndrome
LD90.1 – Early-onset parkinsonism - intellectual deficit
LD90.2 – Pelizaeus-Merzbacher-like disease
LD90.4 – Rett syndrome
LD90.Y – Other specified conditions with disorders of intellectual development as a relevant clinical feature
LD90.Z – Conditions with disorders of intellectual development as a relevant clinical feature, unspecified

Foundation entity

Prader-Willi syndrome – http://id.who.int/icd/entity/393773440

Part of: LD90: Conditions with disorders of intellectual development as a relevant clinical feature › 20: Developmental anomalies