List Of Rare Diseases

List Of Rare Diseases
Rare diseases are diseases which do not attract lot of public attention, funding, or research, perhaps because they are extremely very rare and are poorly publicized. Some of the rare diseases include: -

Acrocephalosyndactylia

Acrodermatitis

Addison Disease

Adie Syndrome

Alagille Syndrome

Amylose

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

Angelman Syndrome

Angina Pectoris, Variant

Angiolymphoid Hyperplasia with Eosinophilia

Arnold-Chiari Malformation

Arthritis, Juvenile Rheumatoid

Asperger Syndrome

Bardet-Biedl Syndrome

Barrett Esophagus

Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndrome

Behcet Syndrome

Bloom Syndrome

Bowen's Disease

Brachial Plexus Neuropathies

Brown-Sequard Syndrome

Burkitt Lymphoma

Carcinoma 256, Walker

Caroli Disease

Chagas Disease

Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease

Chediak-Higashi Syndrome

Chiari-Frommel Syndrome

Chondrodysplasia Punctata

Choreatic Disorders

Churg-Strauss Syndrome

Colonic Pseudo-Obstruction

Craniofacial Dysostosis

Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome

Crohn Disease

Cushing Syndrome

De Lange Syndrome

Dementia, Vascular

Dermatitis Herpetiformis

Diffuse Cerebral Sclerosis of Schilder

Duane Retraction Syndrome

Dupuytren's Contracture

Dysautonomia, Familial

Ebstein's Anomaly

Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome

Eisenmenger Complex

Ellis-Van Creveld Syndrome

Encephalitis

Enchondromatosis

Epidermal Necrolysis, Toxic

Facial Hemiatrophy

Factor XII Deficiency

Fanconi Anemia

Felty's Syndrome

Fibrous Dysplasia, Polyostotic

Fox-Fordyce Disease

Friedreich Ataxia

Fusobacterium

Gardner Syndrome

Gaucher Disease

Gerstmann Syndrome

Giant Lymph Node Hyperplasia

Goldenhar Syndrome

Guillain-Barre Syndrome

Hallermann's Syndrome

Hallervorden-Spatz Syndrome

Hamartoma Syndrome, Multiple

Hartnup Disease

Hepatic Vein Thrombosis

Hepatolenticular Degeneration

Hereditary Motor and Sensory Neuropathies

Hippel-Lindau Disease

Hirschsprung Disease

Histiocytic Necrotizing Lymphadenitis

Histiocytosis, Langerhans-Cell

Histiocytosis, Sinus

Hodgkin Disease

Horner Syndrome

Huntington Disease

Hyperaldosteronism

Hyperostosis, Diffuse Idiopathic Skeletal

Hypopituitarism

Inappropriate ADH Syndrome

Intestinal Polyps

Isaacs Syndrome

Kartagener Syndrome

Kearns-Sayer Syndrome

Keratosis Follicularis

Klippel-Feil Syndrome

Klippel-Trenaunay-Weber Syndrome

Kluver-Bucy Syndrome

Korsakoff Syndrome

Lafora Disease

Lambert-Eaton Myasthenic Syndrome

Landau-Kleffner Syndrome

Langer-Giedion Syndrome

Leigh Disease

Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome

Leukodystrophy, Globoid Cell

Li-Fraumeni Syndrome

Long QT Syndrome

Lymphoma, Mantle-Cell

Machado-Joseph Disease

Mallory-Weiss Syndrome

Marek Disease

Marfan Syndrome

Meckel Diverticulum

Meige Syndrome

Melkersson-Rosenthal Syndrome

Meniere's Disease

Mikulicz' Disease

Miller Fisher Syndrome

Mobius Syndrome

Moyamoya Disease

Mucocutaneous Lymph Node Syndrome

Mullerian Ducts

Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Type 1

Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy

Muscular Atrophy, Spinal

Neuroaxonal Dystrophies

Neuromyelitis Optica

Neuronal Ceroid-Lipofuscinoses

Niemann-Pick Diseases

Noonan Syndrome

Optic Atrophies, Hereditary

Osteitis Deformans

Osteochondritis

Osteochondrodysplasias

Paget's Disease, Mammary

Papillon-Lefevre Disease

Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease

Pemphigus, Benign Familial

Penile Induration

Pericarditis, Constrictive

Peroxisomal Disorders

Peutz-Jeghers Syndrome

Pick Disease of the Brain

Pierre Robin Syndrome

Pityriasis Lichenoides

Polycystic Ovary Syndrome

Polyendocrinopathies, Autoimmune

Prader-Willi Syndrome

Pulmonary Fibrosis

Pupil Disorders

Raynaud Disease

Reiter Syndrome

Rett Syndrome

Reye Syndrome

Rubinstein-Taybi Syndrome

Sandhoff Disease

Sarcoma, Ewing's

Shwartzman Phenomenon

Shy-Drager Syndrome

Sjogren's Syndrome

Sjogren-Larsson Syndrome

Smith-Lemli-Opitz Syndrome

Spinal Muscular Atrophies of Childhood

Sturge-Weber Syndrome

Sweating, Gustatory

Sweet's Syndrome

Takayasu's Arteritis

Tangier Disease

Tay-Sachs Disease

Thromboangiitis Obliterans

Tietze's Syndrome

Togaviridae Infections

Tolosa-Hunt Syndrome

Tourette Syndrome

Uveomeningoencephalitic Syndrome

Waardenburg's Syndrome

Waldenstrom Macroglobulinemia

Wegener Granulomatosis

Weil Disease

Werner Syndrome

Williams Syndrome

Wilms Tumor

Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome

Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome

Wolfram Syndrome

Wolman Disease

Zellweger Syndrome

Zollinger-Ellison Syndrome

Genetically Inherited Diseases

Genetically Inherited Diseases
It was difficult to diagnose genetically inherited diseases, but with the advance in technology, there have been breakthroughs that have enabled persons predisposed to genetic diseases to get diagnoses early, before the birth of a child. This way, they will know the chances of the disease being inherited by the unborn child. However, this technology is yet to permeate and reach potential sufferers and so genetically inherited diseases are a reality of the 21st century. Genetically inherited diseases rages form ALS or Lou Gehrig's syndrome to Huntington's disease.

Diagnosis of these diseases was usually done after the effects on the life of the sufferer have become irreversible and the person has been taken to a mental institution. A neurologist will assess the mental functions and the family diseases of the person to make a clear cut diagnosis. A CT scan is performed on the person and genetic tests to analyze the DNA of the person and the likelihood of the genetic disease. For a person displaying obvious symptoms, the genetic tests need not be done, although they are dome as a medical procedure to confirm the disease.

Testing for genetically inherited diseases is done at three stages; at the prenatal stage before the birth of a child, at the developmental stages of a child and after the development of the symptoms of a genetically inherited disease. The prenatal stage is the best stage in the opinion of many medical practitioners. This is not done on just any expectant mother, but on those mothers with the genetic predisposition to the disease. At the developmental stages of a child in a family with a history of any genetically inherited disease, the child may be tested for the disease so as to be wary of the symptoms and to know the chances of developing the disease late in life. Although there is nothing that can be done to prevent the disease even with early diagnosis, the family will be well prepared psychologically to handle the disease in the event that the child is infected. The testing after the symptoms is mainly confirmation of suspicion of the genetically inherited disease.

Genetically inherited diseases involve the passing of a gene that is faulty from one generation to the other. In some genetically inherited diseases, the faulty gene is dominant and is recessive in some. A recessive gene rarely has any harm but a dominant gene manifests itself in the life of the person later in life.