Autonomic dysfunction in mental retardation and spastic paraparesis with MECP2 mutation.

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Autonomic nervous system involvement in female patients with classic Rett syndrome usually manifests as breathing abnormalities, peripheral vasomotor disturbances, and cardiac sympathetic imbalance, the latter a possible cause of sudden death. MECP2 gene mutations responsible for Rett syndrome have also been found in male patients with mental retardation, sometimes associated with different neurologic...

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