Case Report

Update Review and Clinical Presentation in Congenital Insensitivity to Pain and Anhidrosis

Table 1

Thorough review of the PubMed literature on CIPA and associated medical conditions mentioned in this paper was performed.

ReferencesYear of publicationParticularity of the observation and remarks for each reading

Dearborn [1]1932First reference, in literature, to a similar disease

Swanson [2]1963First reference, in literature, to CIPA

Nishida [3]1951Three clinical representative findings: insensitivity to pain, inability to sweat, and mental retardation
Tunçbilek et al. [4]2005

Rosemberg et al. [5] review1994Only 32 cases have been published worldwide
Gao et al. [6]2013Only some hundreds of cases have been published
worldwide

Daneshjou et al.
[7]
2012Incidence 1 in 125 million newborns

Indo et al. [8] 1996CIPA pathogenesis: genetic loss-of-function mutation of
Indo et al. [9] 1997the NTKR1 gene (locus 1q 21-22). NTKR1 mutations
imply an alteration in TrKA, A NGF receptor

Indo et al. [8] 1996Autosomal recessive disorder
Indo [10] 2001Not only autosomal recessive inheritance, but also uniparental disomy (non-Mendelian inheritance of autosomal recessive disease from a single carrier parent, as the exposed case)

Indo [10] review2001Novel mutation and polymorphism in the NTRK1 gene causing CIPA
Indo et al. [15]2001
Bonkowsky et al. [11]2003
Lin et al. [12]2010
Mardy et al. [16]2001
Miura et al. [13]2000
Weier et al. [14]1995
Bonkowsky et al. [11] 2003

Indo [25] review2002A very profuse resume of clinical and genetic characteristics of CIPA

Indo [18]2010NGF receptor failure causes a deficient development of dorsal root neurons (pain and temperature sensory system) autonomic sympathetic neural system (eccrine sweat glands innervation)
Central nervous system
The signal pathway of B lymphocytes
Indo [19]2012
Tanaka et al. [20]1990
Schwarzkopf et al. [17] review2005
Indo [25]2002
Melamed et al. [21]2004

Grills and Schuijers [24]1998NGF function disruption also causes an altered process of fracture consolidation

Fruchtman et al.[26]2013Descriptive clinical presentation including morbidity
Yang et al. [27] 2013conditions (some of these clinical facts are also present in the case reported)

Jarade et al. [35] review2002Ocular manifestations

Brandes and Stuth [39]2006Anaesthetic considerations
Oliveira et al. [40]2009

Abdulla et al. [33]2014Heterotopic ossification and callus formation following fractures, eventually Charcot's joint

Schreiber et al. [41] 2005Insulin-related difficulties