Groll Hirschowitz syndrome

Other Names: Nerve type deafness with mesenteric diverticula of small bowel and progressive sensory neuropathy A rare neurologic disease characterized by progressive sensorineural deafness, progressive sensory neuropathy and gastrointestinal abnormalities, including progressive loss of gastric motility and small bowel diverticulosis and ulcerations, resulting in cachexia. Additonal neurological manifestations may include dysarthria and absent tendon reflexes, as well as ptosis and external ophthalmoplegia. There have been no further descriptions in the literature since 1985.

NIH genetic and rare disease info

• NIH info on Groll Hirschowitz syndrome

Groll Hirschowitz syndrome is a rare disease.

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