List of abbreviations for diseases and disorders

This list contains acronyms and initials related to diseases (infectious or non-infectious) and medical disorders.

A Acronyms Diseases and disorders AAA Abdominal aortic aneurysm AAS Aarskog–Scott syndrome ABCD syndrome Albinism, black lock, cell migration disorder ABPA Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis ACC Agenesis of the corpus callosum ACS Acute coronary syndrome ACTH deficiency Adrenocorticotropic hormone deficiency ACUG Arthrocutaneouveal granulomatosis (see Blau syndrome) ACVD Atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease AD Alzheimer's disease AD Attachment disorder ADD Attention deficit disorder ADD-RT Attention deficit disorder – residual type ADEM Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis ADHD Attention deficit hyperactivity disorderAERDAspirin exacerbated respiratory disease AF or A-fib Atrial fibrillation AGS Aicardi–Goutières syndrome AH Acquired hemophilia AHA Acquired hemophilia A AHB Acquired hemophilia B AHC Alternating hemiplegia of childhood AHF Alkhurma hemorrhagic fever AKI Acute kidney injury AIDS Acquired immune deficiency syndrome AIP Acute intermittent porphyria ALA DD Doss porphyria/ALA dehydratase deficiency/Plumboporphyria (the disease is known by multiple names) ALD Alcoholic liver disease ALI Acute lung injury ALL Acute lymphoblastic lymphoma, acute lymphocytic leukemia ALS Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis AMD Age-related macular degeneration AML Acute myelogenous leukemia AN Anorexia nervosa AOCD Anemia of chronic disease AODM Adult onset diabetes mellitus AOS Apraxia of speech APA Aldosterone-producing adenoma APS Antiphospholipid syndrome ARBD Alcohol-related birth defects ARD Adult Refsum disease ARDS Acute respiratory distress syndrome ARND Alcohol-related neurodevelopmental disorder ARM Anorectal malformation AS Ankylosing spondylitis AS Asperger syndrome ASCVD Atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease ASD Atrial septal defect ASD(s) Autism spectrum disorders ASHF Acute systolic heart failure ASMD Acid sphingomyelinase deficiency (see Niemann-Pick disease) ASS African sleeping sickness A-T Ataxia-telangiectasia AVMs Arteriovenous malformations

B Acronyms Diseases and disorders BA Bronchial Asthma BBS Bardet-Biedl syndrome BBS Bashful bladder syndrome (see paruresis) BEB Benign essential blepharospasm BD Behçet disease BD Binswanger's disease BEH Behaviorally/emotionally handicapped BH Behaviorally handicapped BL Burkitt lymphoma BMD Becker's muscular dystrophy BPAD Bipolar affective disorder BPD Borderline personality disorder (often misattributed to bipolar disorder) BPH Benign prostatic hyperplasia BRBNS Blue rubber bleb nevus syndrome BRIC1 Benign recurrent intrahepatic cholestasis 1 BRRS Bannayan–Riley–Ruvalcaba syndrome BrS Brugada syndrome BS Bloom syndrome BSE Bovine spongiform encephalopathy BSS Brown-Séquard syndrome BV Bacterial vaginosis

C Acronyms Diseases and disorders CA Cancer CACH Childhood ataxia with central nervous system hypomyelination (see vanishing white matter disease) CAD Coronary artery disease CADASIL Cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy CAP Community acquired pneumonia CAPA COVID-19–associated pulmonary aspergillosis CAPD Central auditory processing disorder CCD Considerable conduct disorder CCHF Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever CCHS Congenital central hypoventilation syndrome CCM Cerebral cavernous malformation CDG Congenital disorder of glycosylation CDGS Carbohydrate deficient glycoprotein syndrome CDHF Chronic diastolic heart failure CEP Congenital erythropoietic porphyria CESD Cholesteryl ester storage disease CF Cystic fibrosis CFIDS Chronic fatigue immune dysfunction syndrome CFS Chronic fatigue syndrome CGBD Corticobasal ganglionic degeneration CH Cluster headache CHARGE syndrome Coloboma of the eye, heart defects, atresia of the nasal choanae, delayed growth & or development, genital abnormalities, ear abnormalities CHD Congenital heart disease CHD Congenital hip dysplasia CHD Coronary heart disease CHF Congestive heart failure CIDP Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy CIPA Congenital insensitivity to pain with anhidrosis CIP Congenital insensitivity to pain CJD Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease CKD Chronic kidney disease CLOVES syndrome Congenital lipomatous overgrowth, vascular malformations, epidermal nevi, and skeletal/spinal abnormalities syndrome CML Chronic myelogenous leukemia CMs Chiari malformations CMT disease Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease CMT1A Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease type 1A CMT1B Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease type 1B CMT1C Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease type 1C CMT1D Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease type 1D CMT1E Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease type 1E CMT1F Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease type 1F CMT1X Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease type 1X CMT2 Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease type 2 COFS Cerebro-oculo-facio-skeletal syndrome COLD Chronic obstructive lung disease COPD Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease COVID-19Coronavirus disease 2019 CP Cerebral palsy CP/CPPS Chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome CPDD Calcium pyrophosphate deposition disease CPM Central pontine myelinolysis CPPS Chronic pelvic pain syndrome (see UCPPS) CRECarbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae CRF Chronic renal failure CRKP Carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae CRPS Complex regional pain syndrome CSA Central sleep apnea CSD Cat scratch disease CTE Chronic traumatic encephalopathy CTF Colorado tick fever CVD Cardiovascular disease CVI Chronic venous insufficiency CWD Chronic wasting disease

D Acronyms Diseases and disorders DAS Developmental apraxia of speech DBA Diamond–Blackfan anemia DBMD Duchenne–Becker muscular dystrophy DD Developmental disability DEF Deaf DF Dengue fever DH Developmentally handicapped DHF Dengue hemorrhagic fever DHF Diastolic heart failure DHPR Dihydropteridine reductase deficiency DI Diabetes insipidus DIC Disseminated intravascular coagulation DID Dissociative Identity Disorder DiG DiGeorge syndrome DISH Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis DJD Degenerative joint disease DLB Dementia with Lewy bodies DM Diabetes mellitus DMD Duchenne muscular dystrophy DNSD dissociative neurological symptom disorder DP Doss porphyria/ALA dehydratase deficiency/Plumboporphyria (the disease is known by multiple names) DPT Diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus DRSP disease Drug-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae disease DS Down syndrome DSPS Delayed sleep phase syndrome DTs Delirium tremens DVD Developmental verbal dyspraxia DVT Deep vein thrombosis

E Acronyms Diseases and disorders ED Emotionally disturbedEDErectile dysfunction EDS Ehlers–Danlos syndrome EDS Excessive daytime sleepiness EEE Eastern equine encephalitis EHK Epidermolytic hyperkeratosis EMH Educable mentally handicapped EMR Educable mentally retarded ENS Epidermal nevus syndrome EOAD Early-onset Alzheimer's disease EPM Extrapontine myelinolysis (see central pontine myelinolysis) EPP Erythropoietic protoporphyria ESRD End-stage renal disease ESS Empty sella syndrome EVD Ebola Virus Disease

F Acronyms Diseases and disorders FAE Fetal alcohol effects FAS Fetal alcohol syndrome FASDs Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders FFI Fatal familial insomnia FMA Focal muscular atrophies FMD Fibromuscular dysplasia FMS Fibromyalgia syndrome FNSD Functional neurological symptom disorder FSP Familial spastic paraparesis FTD Frontotemporal dementia FUO Fever of unknown origin FVS Fetal valproate syndrome Fx Fracture FXS Fragile X syndrome

G Acronyms Diseases and disorders GAD Generalized anxiety disorder GAN Giant axonal neuropathy GAS disease Group A Streptococcal disease GAVE Gastric antral vascular ectasia (see Watermelon stomach) GBS Guillain–Barré syndrome GBS disease Group B Streptococcal disease GCE Glycine encephalopathy GD Gestational diabetes GERD Gastroesophageal reflux disease GI Gastrointestinal GIB Gastrointestinal bleeding GN Glossopharyngeal neuralgia GORD Gastro-oesophageal reflux disease GSS disease Gerstmann–Sträussler–Scheinker disease GT/LD Gifted and learning disabled GVHD Graft-versus-host disease GWD Guinea worm disease

H Acronyms Diseases and disorders H1N1 flu Hemagglutinin Type 1 and Neuraminidase Type 1 influenza HAS Holmes–Adie syndrome HCP Hereditary coproporphyria HD Huntington's disease HDL2 Huntington's disease–like 2 HELLP syndrome Hemolytic anemia, elevated liver enzymes and low platelet count syndrome HeV Infection Hendra virus infection HF Heart failure HFA High-functioning autism HFMD Hand, foot, and mouth disease HFRS Hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome HI Hearing impaired HiB disease Haemophilus influenzae type B disease HIBM Hereditary inclusion body myopathy HMSN Type III Hereditary motor and sensory polyneuropathy type III (see Dejerine–Sottas syndrome) HOH Hard of hearing HTN Hypertension HPRT deficiency Hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyl transferase deficiency HPD Histrionic personality disorder HPS Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome HPV Infection Human papillomavirus infection HSP Hereditary spastic paraplegia

I Acronyms Diseases and disorders IAPA Influenza-associated pulmonary aspergillosis IBD Inflammatory bowel disease IBIDS syndrome Ichthyosis, brittle hair, intellectual impairment, decreased fertility, and short stature syndrome IBM Inclusion body myositis IBS Ichthyosis bullosa of Siemens IBS Irritable bowel syndrome IC/PBS Interstitial cystitis/painful bladder syndrome ICF syndrome Immunodeficiency, centromere instability and facial anomalies syndrome ID Infectious disease IED Intermittent explosive disorder IFAP syndrome Ichthyosis follicularis, alopecia, and photophobia syndrome IHA Idiopathic hyperaldosteronism INAD Infantile neuroaxonal dystrophy IP Incontinentia pigmenti IRD Infantile Refsum disease IS Infantile spasm ITP Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura

J Acronyms Diseases and disorders JAS Juvenile ankylosing spondylitis JBS Johanson–Blizzard syndrome JE Japanese encephalitis JHD Juvenile Huntington's disease JMML Juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia JODM Juvenile onset diabetes mellitus JPA Juvenile pilocytic astrocytoma JRA Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis JWS Jackson–Weiss syndrome

K Acronyms Diseases and disorders KC Keratoconus KFD Kyasanur Forest disease KS Kaposi's sarcoma KS Kawasaki syndrome KSS Kearns–Sayre syndrome KTS Klippel–Trénaunay syndrome KTW Syndrome Klippel–Trénaunay–Weber syndrome

L Acronyms Diseases and disorders LBD Lewy body dementia LCM Lymphocytic choriomeningitis LD(s) Learning disabilities/difficulties/differences/disorder LD Legionnaires' disease LEMS Lambert–Eaton myasthenic syndrome LFA Low-functioning autism LGV Lymphogranuloma venereum LKS Landau–Kleffner syndrome LNS Lesch–Nyhan syndrome LP Lipoid proteinosis LP Little person/people (see dwarfism) LPR Laryngopharyngeal Reflux LUHF Lujo Hemorrhagic Fever

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