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Netherton disease

MIM.256500 5q32

Autosomal recessive disease

Synopsis

- failure to thrive
- sparse eyebrows
- asthma
- enteropathy with villous atrophy

- cutaneous anomalies

  • ’bamboo hair’ (trichorrhexis nodosa, or, because of the nodes, trichorrhexis invaginata)
  • congenital ichthyosiform erythroderma
  • atopic diathesis
  • generalized erythroderma
  • ichthyosis linearis circumflexa
  • congenital lamellar ichthyosis
  • urticaria
  • sparse, brittle scalp hair
  • sparse eyebrows

- angioedema
- developmental delay
- hypernatremic dehydration
- hypereosinophilia

- atopy

  • elevated immunoglobulin E (IgE)
  • recurrent infections
  • hay fever
  • asthma
  • angioedema
  • food allergy

Etiology

- germline mutations in the SPINK5 gene (MIM.605010) encoding the serine protease inhibitor LEKTI (Kazal type, 5)

See also

- genodermatoses