known aetiology
Last reviewed 01/2018
The hereditary ataxias of known cause can be split into those presenting with intermittent or progressive features:
- present primarily with intermittent ataxia:
- disorders of the urea cycle
- disorders of lactate and pyruvate metabolism
- Hartnup disease
- present primarily with progressive ataxia:
- abetalipoproteinaemia
- mitochondrial cytopathy
- Refsum's disease
- ataxia telangiectasia
- xeroderma pigmentosa
- spinocerebellar ataxias type 1,2 & 3