Wolfram-like syndrome
Wolfram-like syndrome is a rare endocrine disease characterized by the triad of adult-onset diabetes mellitus progressive hearing loss (usually presenting in the first decade of life and principally of low to moderate frequencies) and/or juvenile-onset optic atrophy. Psychiatric (i.e. anxiety depression hallucinations) and sleep disorders the only neurologic abnormalities observed in this disease have been reported in rare cases. Unlike Wolfram syndrome patients with Wolfram-like syndrome do not report endocrine or cardiac findings.
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Orphadata: Free access data from Orphanet. © INSERM 1999. Available on http://www.orphadata.org. Data version April 2024
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