Familial Dysautonomia

Abstract

FAMILIAL dysautonomia has been known as a syndrome since its description by Riley et al.¹ in 1949. Since their presentation the diagnosis has been made with increasing frequency in early childhood when one of the severe complications was recognized as part of the clinical picture or by a high level of suspicion after the diagnosis had been made in a sibling or close relative. The syndrome in the newborn and early infant period was examined retrospectively and only after compensatory mechanisms had been evoked and after irrevocable damage had been done to the child. This report concerns a newborn child . . .