neurologic disorders
Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia
Symptoms and Signs of Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia
Symptoms and signs of hereditary spastic paraplegia include spastic leg paresis, with progressive gait difficulty, hyperreflexia, clonus, and extensor plantar responses. Sensation and sphincter function are usually spared. The arms may also be affected. Deficits are not localized to a spinal cord segment. In some forms, patients also have extraspinal neurologic deficits (eg, spinocerebellar and ocular symptoms, extrapyramidal symptoms, optic atrophy, retinal degeneration, intellectual disability, dementia, polyneuropathy). 