Rapid-onset obesity, hypoventilation, hypothalamic dysfunction, autonomic dysregulation syndrome

Abstract

Rapid-onset obesity with hypoventilation, hypothalamic dysfunction and autonomic dysregulation syndrome is a rare disorder that presents with rapidly evolving obesity with several endocrine disorders during early childhood. We present here a documented case of a 6-year-old Syrian girl with the characteristic symptoms of rapid-onset obesity with hypothalamic dysfunction, hypoventilation, and autonomic dysregulation, associated with an abdominal mass (mature ganglioneuroma).

Keywords

• ganglioneuroma
• hypoventilation
• obesity
• rapid-onset obesity with hypoventilation
• hypothalamic dysfunction
• and autonomic dysregulation syndrome