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Cytochrome c Oxidase Deficiency Due to a Novel SCO2 Mutation Mimics Werdnig-Hoffmann Disease
1 May 2002
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BACKGROUND: Mutations in the SCO2 gene have been associated with fatal cardioencephalomyopathy. OBJECTIVE: To report a novel SCO2 mutation with prominent spinal cord involvement mimicking spinal muscular atrophy (Werdnig-Hoffmann disease). PATIENT AND METHODS: An infant girl presented at birth with generalized weakness, hypotonia, and lactic acidosis. At 1 month of age she developed hypertrophic cardiomyopathy...
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