hypochondroplasia

Standard treatment of hypochondroplasia usually takes the form of orthopedic surgery and physical therapy.

In some cases, hypochondroplasia appears to occur randomly for unknown reasons (sporadically) with no apparent family history.

There are two other syndromes with a genetic basis similar to achondroplasia: hypochondroplasia and thanatophoric dysplasia.

The mutation has proven not to be achondroplasia, but is most likely to be either hypochondroplasia or pseudochondroplasia, which affect the long bones of the leg while leaving other bodily proportions, especially the head, unchanged.

Other causes of dwarfism are spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia congenita, diastrophic dysplasia, pseudoachondroplasia, hypochondroplasia, Noonan syndrome, primordial dwarfism, Turner syndrome, osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) and hypothyroidism.

The report covers people from all over the UK and whilst many participants have Achondroplasia, there were also participants with many other conditions such as Pseudoachondroplasa, Diastrophic Dysplasia, Spondo-epiphyseal Dysplasia and Hypochondroplasia.