Catalog

Primary erythromelalgia

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Link to WHO Definition

Primary erythromelalgia – http://id.who.int/icd/entity/327001486

Primary Erythromelalgia is characterised by intermittent burning pain, redness and warmth in the distal hands and feet. The primary form is often familial and inherited in an autosomal dominant fashion. Some patients have gain of function mutations in the SCN9A gene which encodes a voltage gated sodium channel ?-subunit, Nav 1.7.