Diagnosis of adult-onset MELAS syndrome in a 63-year-old patient with suspected recurrent strokes – a case report

BACKGROUND: Mitochondrial encephalomyopathy, lactic acidosis and stroke-like episodes (MELAS) is a mitochondrial cytopathy caused by mutations in mitochondrial DNA. Clinical manifestation is typically before the age of 40. CASE PRESENTATION: We present the case of a 63-year-old female in whom the sy...

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Autores principales: Sinnecker, Tim, Andelova, Michaela, Mayr, Michael, Rüegg, Stephan, Sinnreich, Michael, Hench, Juergen, Frank, Stephan, Schaller, André, Stippich, Christoph, Wuerfel, Jens, Bonati, Leo H.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6505262/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31068171
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12883-019-1306-6

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