Hematology · Hematology / Hemoglobinopathies
Hand–foot syndrome
also: Dactylitis in sickle cell disease
Painful swelling of hands and feet in infants with sickle cell disease.
- Specialty
- Hematology
- Subspecialty
- Hematology / Hemoglobinopathies
- Sex & age distribution
- Male: affected; Female: affected; Children: yes, 6 months to 2 years
- Gene(s) involved
- HBB
- Alternative names & eponyms
- Dactylitis in sickle cell disease
Etiology & mechanism
Vaso-occlusion in small bones.
Gene(s) involved (1)
Symptoms & signs (3)
In plain terms, someone with Hand–foot syndrome may experience the following — click any to explore related syndromes:
Same gene(s)
Other syndromes that involve one of this syndrome's genes.
Overlapping symptoms
Other syndromes that share symptoms with this one.
Drag nodes, scroll to zoom, click a node to open that syndrome.
Shares symptoms with
2 shared
Staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome
fever, irritability
1 shared
Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome
fever
1 shared
Acute chest syndrome
fever
1 shared
Antisynthetase syndrome
fever
1 shared
Behçet-like haploinsufficiency of A20 syndrome
fever
1 shared
Boerhaave syndrome
fever
1 shared
Burnout syndrome
irritability
1 shared
Castleman syndrome
fever
1 shared
Cerebral folate deficiency syndrome
irritability
1 shared
Cryopyrin-associated periodic syndrome
fever
Shares genes with
Loading…
Loading…