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SUBMITTER: Oxford AE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5207777 | biostudies-literature | 2016
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Oxford Alexandra E AE Jorcyk Cheryl L CL Oxford Julia Thom JT
Journal of neurology & neuromedicine 20160101 7
Stüve-Wiedemann syndrome (STWS; OMIM #610559) is a rare disease that results in dysfunction of the autonomic nervous system, which controls involuntary processes such as breathing rate and body temperature. In infants, this can result in respiratory distress, feeding and swallowing difficulties, and hyperthermic episodes. Individuals may sweat excessively when body temperature is not elevated. Additionally, individuals have reduced ability to feel pain and may lose reflexes such as the corneal r ...[more]