Speech-Language and swallowing manifestations and rehabilitation in an 11-year-old girl with MELAS syndrome

Mitochondrial myopathy, encephalopathy, lactic acidosis, and stroke-like episodes (MELAS) syndrome is a rare mitochondrial disease. The available studies on MELAS syndrome are limited to evaluation of radiological, audiological, genetic, and neurological findings. Among the various neurological mani...

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Autores principales: Vandana, V. P., Bindu, Parayil Sankaran, Sonam, Kothari, Taly, Arun B., Gayathri, N., Madhu, N., Sinha, S.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4395941/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25878740
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1817-1745.154326
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author Vandana, V. P.
Bindu, Parayil Sankaran
Sonam, Kothari
Taly, Arun B.
Gayathri, N.
Madhu, N.
Sinha, S.
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Bindu, Parayil Sankaran
Sonam, Kothari
Taly, Arun B.
Gayathri, N.
Madhu, N.
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description Mitochondrial myopathy, encephalopathy, lactic acidosis, and stroke-like episodes (MELAS) syndrome is a rare mitochondrial disease. The available studies on MELAS syndrome are limited to evaluation of radiological, audiological, genetic, and neurological findings. Among the various neurological manifestations, speech-language and swallowing manifestations are less discussed in the literature. This report describes the speech-language and swallowing function in an 11-year-old girl with MELAS syndrome. The intervention over a period of 6 months is discussed.
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spelling pubmed-43959412015-04-15 Speech-Language and swallowing manifestations and rehabilitation in an 11-year-old girl with MELAS syndrome Vandana, V. P. Bindu, Parayil Sankaran Sonam, Kothari Taly, Arun B. Gayathri, N. Madhu, N. Sinha, S. J Pediatr Neurosci Case Report Mitochondrial myopathy, encephalopathy, lactic acidosis, and stroke-like episodes (MELAS) syndrome is a rare mitochondrial disease. The available studies on MELAS syndrome are limited to evaluation of radiological, audiological, genetic, and neurological findings. Among the various neurological manifestations, speech-language and swallowing manifestations are less discussed in the literature. This report describes the speech-language and swallowing function in an 11-year-old girl with MELAS syndrome. The intervention over a period of 6 months is discussed. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015 /pmc/articles/PMC4395941/ /pubmed/25878740 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1817-1745.154326 Text en Copyright: © Journal of Pediatric Neurosciences http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Vandana, V. P.
Bindu, Parayil Sankaran
Sonam, Kothari
Taly, Arun B.
Gayathri, N.
Madhu, N.
Sinha, S.
Speech-Language and swallowing manifestations and rehabilitation in an 11-year-old girl with MELAS syndrome
title Speech-Language and swallowing manifestations and rehabilitation in an 11-year-old girl with MELAS syndrome
title_full Speech-Language and swallowing manifestations and rehabilitation in an 11-year-old girl with MELAS syndrome
title_fullStr Speech-Language and swallowing manifestations and rehabilitation in an 11-year-old girl with MELAS syndrome
title_full_unstemmed Speech-Language and swallowing manifestations and rehabilitation in an 11-year-old girl with MELAS syndrome
title_short Speech-Language and swallowing manifestations and rehabilitation in an 11-year-old girl with MELAS syndrome
title_sort speech-language and swallowing manifestations and rehabilitation in an 11-year-old girl with melas syndrome
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4395941/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25878740
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1817-1745.154326
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