Archives: Conditions A-Z
Inclusion body myositis
Commonest acquired myopathy after 50 with finger-flexor and quadriceps weakness; often immunotherapy-refractory.
Klinefelter syndrome
Extra X chromosome in males causing hypogonadism and infertility.
Kawasaki disease
Acute medium-vessel vasculitis of childhood with risk of coronary artery aneurysms.
Kallmann syndrome
Hypogonadotropic hypogonadism with impaired smell from defective GnRH neuron migration.
Kennedy disease
X-linked lower motor neuron disorder with bulbar/limb weakness and androgen insensitivity features.
Leishmaniasis
Sandfly-borne parasitic disease with cutaneous, mucocutaneous and fatal visceral forms.
Leber hereditary optic neuropathy
Mitochondrial optic neuropathy causing acute/subacute bilateral central vision loss, mainly young men.
Leber congenital amaurosis
Severe inherited retinal dystrophy causing blindness/severe visual impairment from infancy.
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