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Ontology for the description of human clinical features
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Add term transependymal edema #10404

Closed lisannesw closed 5 months ago

lisannesw commented 6 months ago

Preferred term label: Transependymal edema

Synonyms interstitial cerebral edema, periventricular lucency, increased transependymal flow

Definition (free text, please give PubMed ID) A type of cerebral edema that occurs with increased pressure within the cerebral ventricles. PMID: 34560294

Parent term (use hpo.jax.org/app) Cerebral edema HP:0002181

Diseases characterized by this term ? (e.g. Orphanet or OMIM number) Communicating hydrocephalus (ICD10 G91.0)

Your nano-attribution (ORCID) Andreas Zankl: 0000-0001-8612-1062, @azankl Lisanne Wit: 0009-0007-1020-5412

pnrobinson commented 5 months ago

@lisannesw @azankl The HPO does not encode pathophysiology or etiology. As far as I can see there is no characteristic phenotypic difference that would allow one to identify "Transependymal" as compared to other etiologies. Therefore, one would simply annotate "Cerebral edema".