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  • Title: Congenital insensitivity to pain with anhydrosis. Report of a family and review of literature with reference to immune deficiency.
    Author: Vardy PA, Greenberg LW, Kachel C, de Leon GF.
    Journal: Am J Dis Child; 1979 Nov; 133(11):1153-5. PubMed ID: 92193.
    Abstract:
    Congenital indifference to pain with anhydrosis (CIPA) is a well-defined entity among a group of sensory deficiency syndromes. Children with this genetic disease are insensitive to pain and temperature and do not sweat and suffer from psychomotor retardation. Self-inflicted trauma may be severe and lead to insoluble orthopedic problems. To date, 11 cases have been reported. We have reviewed the literature and are describing two girls with CIPA, born to consanguine Jewish parents of Moroccan origin. Immunoglobulin deficiency has been reported in CIPA but an immunologic investigation on one of our cases showed only an early and transient deficiency of IgA. The presence in the family of a brother with ataxia telangiectasia and complete absence of IgA would seem to be irrelevant and it seems probable that the parents are heterozygotic for two disparate autosomal recessive syndromes.
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