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I want to do a project...but i need a rare disease to to it on! got any ideas

Hydradenitis Supuritiva - You think your acne was bad...check this out...

Scleroderma - When skin mutinies...

You can go to the link below and take your pick, but these are my two diseases of interest. I know someone with each disease.

Restrictive cardiomyopathy
This is the rarest form of heart disease.
Since heart disease is in the spotlight this may be a cool spin

Kawasaki Syndrome

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease(CJD)
, it is rare and only occurs in about one out of every one million people

Acrocephalosyndactylia
Acrodermatitis

Addison Disease
Adie Syndrome

Adiposis Dolorosa
Alagille Syndrome

Amylose
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

Angelman Syndrome
Angina Pectoris, Variant

Angiolymphoid Hyperplasia with Eosinophilia
Arnold-Chiari Malformation

Arthritis, Juvenile Rheumatoid
Asperger Syndrome



Bardet-Biedl Syndrome
Barrett Esophagus

Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndrome
Behcet Syndrome

Bernard-Soulier Syndrome
Bloom Syndrome

Bowen's Disease
Brachial Plexus Neuropathies

Brown-Sequard Syndrome
Burkitt Lymphoma



Carcinoma 256, Walker
Caroli Disease

Chagas Disease
Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease

Chediak-Higashi Syndrome
Chiari-Frommel Syndrome

Chondrodysplasia Punctata
Choreatic Disorders

Churg-Strauss Syndrome
Colonic Pseudo-Obstruction

Colorectal Neoplasms, Hereditary Nonpolyposis
Craniofacial Dysostosis

Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome
Crohn Disease

Cushing Syndrome


Dandy-Walker Syndrome
De Lange Syndrome

Dementia, Vascular
Dermatitis Herpetiformis

DiGeorge Syndrome
Diffuse Cerebral Sclerosis of Schilder

Duane Retraction Syndrome
Dupuytren's Contracture

Dysautonomia, Familial


Ebstein's Anomaly
Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome

Eisenmenger Complex
Ellis-Van Creveld Syndrome

Encephalitis
Enchondromatosis

Epidermal Necrolysis, Toxic


Fabry Disease
Facial Hemiatrophy

Factor XII Deficiency
Fanconi Anemia

Felty's Syndrome
Fibrous Dysplasia, Polyostotic

Fox-Fordyce Disease
Friedreich Ataxia

Fusobacterium


Gardner Syndrome
Gaucher Disease

Gerstmann Syndrome
Giant Lymph Node Hyperplasia

Gilbert Disease
Glycogen Storage Disease Type I

Glycogen Storage Disease Type II
Glycogen Storage Disease Type IV

Glycogen Storage Disease Type V
Glycogen Storage Disease Type VII

Goldenhar Syndrome
Goodpasture Syndrome

Guillain-Barre Syndrome
Gynatresia



Hallermann's Syndrome
Hallervorden-Spatz Syndrome

Hamartoma Syndrome, Multiple
Hand-Schueller-Christian Syndrome

Hartnup Disease
Hemoglobinuria, Paroxysmal

Hepatic Vein Thrombosis
Hepatolenticular Degeneration

Hereditary Motor and Sensory Neuropathies
Hippel-Lindau Disease

Hirschsprung Disease
Histiocytic Necrotizing Lymphadenitis

Histiocytosis, Langerhans-Cell
Histiocytosis, Sinus

Hodgkin Disease
Horner Syndrome

Huntington Disease
Hyperaldosteronism

Hyperostosis, Diffuse Idiopathic Skeletal
Hypopituitarism



Inappropriate ADH Syndrome
Intestinal Polyps

Isaacs Syndrome


Jaundice, Chronic Idiopathic


Kallmann Syndrome
Kartagener Syndrome

Kearns-Sayer Syndrome
Keratosis Follicularis

Klinefelter Syndrome
Klippel-Feil Syndrome

Klippel-Trenaunay-Weber Syndrome
Kluver-Bucy Syndrome

Korsakoff Syndrome


Lafora Disease
Lambert-Eaton Myasthenic Syndrome

Landau-Kleffner Syndrome
Langer-Giedion Syndrome

Leigh Disease
Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome

Letterer-Siwe Disease
Leukodystrophy, Globoid Cell

Li-Fraumeni Syndrome
Long QT Syndrome

Lymphoma, Mantle-Cell


Machado-Joseph Disease
Mallory-Weiss Syndrome

Marek Disease
Marfan Syndrome

Meckel Diverticulum
Meige Syndrome

Melkersson-Rosenthal Syndrome
Meniere's Disease

Mikulicz' Disease
Miller Fisher Syndrome

Mobius Syndrome
Moyamoya Disease

Mucocutaneous Lymph Node Syndrome
Mucopolysaccharidosis I

Mucopolysaccharidosis II
Mucopolysaccharidosis III

Mucopolysaccharidosis IV
Mucopolysaccharidosis VI

Mullerian Ducts
Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Type 1

Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy
Muscular Atrophy, Spinal



Nelson Syndrome
Nephritis, Hereditary

Nephroblastoma
Neuroaxonal Dystrophies

Neuromyelitis Optica
Neuronal Ceroid-Lipofuscinosis

Niemann-Pick Diseases
Noonan Syndrome



Optic Atrophies, Hereditary
Osteitis Deformans

Osteochondritis
Osteochondrodysplasias

Osteolysis, Essential


Paget's Disease, Extramammary
Paget's Disease, Mammary

Panniculitis, Nodular Nonsuppurative
Papillon-Lefevre Disease

Paralysis
Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease

Pemphigus, Benign Familial
Penile Induration

Pericarditis, Constrictive
Peroxisomal Disorders

Peutz-Jeghers Syndrome
Pick Disease of the Brain

Pierre Robin Syndrome
Pigmentation Disorders

Pityriasis Lichenoides
Poikiloderma Congenitale

Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
Polyendocrinopathies, Autoimmune

Prader-Willi Syndrome
Progeria

Pulmonary Fibrosis
Pupil Disorders



Raynaud Disease
Reiter Disease

Rett Syndrome
Reye Syndrome

Rubinstein-Taybi Syndrome


Sandhoff Disease
Sarcoma, Ewing's

Scheuermann's Disease
Shwartzman Phenomenon

Shy-Drager Syndrome
Sjogren's Syndrome

Sjogren-Larsson Syndrome
Smith-Lemli-Opitz Syndrome

Spinal Muscular Atrophies of Childhood
Stevens-Johnson Syndrome

Sturge-Weber Syndrome
Sweating, Gustatory

Sweet's Syndrome


Takayasu's Arteritis
Tangier Disease

Tay-Sachs Disease
Thromboangiitis Obliterans

Thyroiditis, Autoimmune
Tietze's Syndrome

Togaviridae Infections
Tolosa-Hunt Syndrome

Tourette Syndrome
Turner Syndrome



Uveomeningoencephalitic Syndrome


Waardenburg's Syndrome
Waldenstrom Macroglobulinemia

Wegener's Granulomatosis
Weil Disease

Werner Syndrome


For more; visit the below link:


http://www.hon.ch/HONselect/RareDiseases...

Hand Schuller Christian syndrome.

I have syringomylemia. That is rare enough that the Neurosurgeons who are supposed to help us with that, are rare and hard to find. To find out more about this rare disease, go to ASAP.org. Sign in, it is free, and read all about it. Chiari is listed as well................they are rather a lot alike!

KURU is one of the rarest diseases. it was seen in the african tribals group. the disease affects the nervous system- Brain.
In older days, it was believed by them, that if they eat the brain of the deceased, they will be able to acquire the wisdom from them. So they cut open the head and take the brain and consume it.

Check out
http://www.rarediseases.org/

This is the site of the group that keeps track of rare diseases.
You can not only get a name, but also a whole bunch of information on what the disease is, what causes it, how it's treated, how many people get it, and so on.

One-stop report research.

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