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ORPHA:369929

Primary hyperaldosteronism-seizures-neurological abnormalities syndrome

high confidenceDisorder

Query health: suspect — Only one of 2 strategies returned hits (phrase).

Publications

52

49.1th percentile

Trials

0

Interventional, condition-specific

Researchers

469

Distinct authors in sample

Gene link

CACNA1D

Definitive

Readiness

2/6

Stages with a signal

Clinical definition (Orphanet)

A rare, genetic, neurologic disease characterized by primary hyperaldosteronism presenting with early-onset, severe hypertension, hypokalemia and neurological manifestations (including , severe , spasticity, cerebral palsy and profound /).

How rare: <1 / 1 000 000 — fewer than one in a million. In a city the size of Kolkata, that might mean on the order of fifteen people.

Orphanet entry

Cross-references

Joined from Mondo / Orphanet. MeSH labels may enter searches; UMLS / OMIM / NCIT are stored for reference.

Additional Mondo synonyms (5)

APA with seizures and neurological abnormalities · Conn adenoma with seizures and neurological abnormalities · aldosterone-secreting adenoma with seizures and neurological abnormalities · complex neurodevelopmental disorder with or without aldosteronism · primary aldosteronism, seizures, and neurologic abnormalities

Research stages

Trial readiness signals

Where this condition sits on an open-data research pipeline — not how close a treatment is, and not medical advice. Empty stages often mean “not in these databases under this Mondo ID,” not “impossible.”

2/6 stages with a signal

No matched interventional trial; the gene is known and literature exists — preclinical or natural-history work may still be the practical next step.

  1. Gene identifiedPresent

    Definitive — CACNA1D

  2. LiteraturePresent

    52 matched papers (39 in last 10 years) Source

  3. Phenotype characterisedNot checked

    Not yet enriched from Monarch / HPO

  4. Animal modelNot checked

    Not yet enriched from Monarch / Alliance

  5. Orphan designationNot checked

    FDA/EMA orphan-drug designation not enriched yet

  6. Interventional trialNot found

    No matched interventional trial under our ClinicalTrials.gov rules

Biology

Genes and phenotypes

Gene–disease validity from GenCC, plus phenotypes and animal models joined from Monarch Initiative via Mondo ID — not a clinical diagnosis aid.

Do we know what causes it?

Yes — we know a specific gene responsible (CACNA1D).

GenCC classification: Definitive.

Phenotypes (Monarch / HPO)

Not enriched in this build — Monarch phenotype joins were not run for this record.

Animal models (Monarch / Alliance)

Not enriched in this build.

Literature

Is anyone studying this?

52

52 papers have ever been published on this condition (under this name). For scale, breast cancer has over 700,000. Median papers in the last 10 years for a rare disease in this dataset (publications denominator n=5449) is 41.

52 papers since the earliest indexed year in this search — median last-10-year count for a rare disease in this dataset is 41 (publications denominator n=5449).

39 in the last 10 years · high confidence · 49.1th percentile (publications denominator)

Phrase hits: 52 · MeSH hits: 0

Open Europe PMC search

Who's working on it?

469

Distinct author names in 52 sampled papers — named people below.

Who's working on it?

No interventional trial matched this name; these authors publish on it in the sampled literature — a practical starting point for contact.

  1. 01
    Scholl UI4 papers · 2024

    Department of Nephrology, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Heinrich Heine University , Düsseldorf , Germany.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  2. 02
    Liu Y3 papers · 2023

    Department of Genetics, Jiangxi Maternal and Child Health Hospital, 330006, Nanchang, China.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  3. 03
    Striessnig J3 papers · 2024

    Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Institute of Pharmacy, Center for Molecular Biosciences, University of Innsbruck Innsbruck, Austria.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  4. 04
    Daly MJ2 papers · 2026

    Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  5. 05
    Furuta Y2 papers · 2024

    Division of Medical Genetics and Genomic Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 37232, USA.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  6. 06
    Gallagher MJ2 papers · 2014

    Department of Neurology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  7. 07
    Li H2 papers · 2023

    BGI-Anhui Clinical Laboratory, BGI-Shenzhen, 236000, Fuyang, China.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  8. 08
    Owen MJ2 papers · 2023

    Medical Research Council Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics, Division of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences, Cardiff University, Wales, CF24 4HQ, UK.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  9. 09
    Phillips JA 3rd2 papers · 2024

    Division of Medical Genetics and Genomic Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 37232, USA.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  10. 10
    Seidel E2 papers · 2023

    Department of Nephrology, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Heinrich Heine University , Düsseldorf , Germany.

    Papers in Europe PMC

Clinical research

Is a treatment being tested?

0

interventional trials for this specific condition

No interventional trial testing a treatment matched this specific condition name on ClinicalTrials.gov (observational studies and pan-disease registries are listed separately when present).

Data as of 27 July 2026

No matched interventional trials. This is true for 73% of diseases in the trials denominator (5114 of 7003). Here are the researchers publishing on it.

high confidence · 36.5th percentile (trials denominator)

Recruiting interventional trials

From the matched ClinicalTrials.gov set

No interventional trial testing a treatment was found for this specific condition name on ClinicalTrials.gov.

See who's working on it — people publishing on this disease are often the practical next contact when no trial is listed.

Where to find support

We do not yet link condition-specific patient organisations. These umbrella groups support undiagnosed and ultra-rare families:

India — NPRD

Last verified 2026-07-26

This ORPHAcode is not on our curated NPRD list (direct or Mondo-parent match). That does not decide clinical eligibility; families in India should ask a notified Centre of Excellence about current coverage.

Hand-curated for this project. ORPHAcode mappings are best-effort and may be incomplete or imprecise for umbrella categories. Parent (Mondo) matches mean the policy lists a broader category — confirm eligibility with a Centre of Excellence. Financial entitlements summarised from public policy statements and may change. This is not official government guidance.

How we counted this

Europe PMC query (preferred label + any corrected label + Orphanet and Mondo exact synonyms, stoplisted; unioned with resolved MeSH labels when available). UMLS / OMIM / NCIT cross-references are stored on the overview but are not added to the query string.

"Primary hyperaldosteronism-seizures-neurological abnormalities syndrome" OR "APA with seizures and neurological abnormalities" OR "Conn adenoma with seizures and neurological abnormalities" OR "aldosterone-secreting adenoma with seizures and neurological abnormalities" OR "complex neurodevelopmental disorder with or without aldosteronism" OR "primary aldosteronism, seizures, and neurologic abnormalities"

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ClinicalTrials.gov query (quoted phrases + MeSH via query.cond, plus recall-expansion terms when used):

"Primary hyperaldosteronism-seizures-neurological abnormalities syndrome" OR "APA with seizures and neurological abnormalities" OR "Conn adenoma with seizures and neurological abnormalities" OR "aldosterone-secreting adenoma with seizures and neurological abnormalities" OR "complex neurodevelopmental disorder with or without aldosteronism" OR "primary aldosteronism, seizures, and neurologic abnormalities" OR "CACNA1D" OR "familial hyperaldosteronism"

Recall-expansion terms: CACNA1D, familial hyperaldosteronism

Study-type breakdown: 0 interventional · 0 observational · 0 expanded access. Only interventional studies enter the trial headline.

Query health: suspect — strategies attempted: phrase, recall-expansion; with hits: phrase

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Confidence reasoning

  • Preferred label is multi-word and distinctive
  • No synonyms dropped by stoplist
  • No label/synonym collisions with other diseases in this corpus

Ingested 2026-07-27T14:50:50.651Z