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Familial dysautonomia (FD) sometimes called Riley–Day syndrome and hereditary sensory and autonomic neuropathy type III (HSAN-III) — is a disorder of the autonomic nervous system which affects the development and survival of sensory sympathetic and some parasympathetic neurons in the autonomic and sensory nervous system resulting in variable symptoms including: insensitivity to pain inability to produce tears poor growth and labile blood pressure (episodic hypertension and postural hypotension).
