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Muscle glycogenosis and mitochondrial hepatopathy in an infant with mutations in both the myophosphorylase and deoxyguanosine kinase genes.
Archives of neurology - 1 Oct 2003
Mancuso Michelangelo, Filosto Massimiliano, Tsujino Seiichi, Lamperti Costanza, Shanske Sara, Coquet Michéle, Desnuelle Claude, DiMauro Salvatore
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVES: To document 2 apparently incongruous clinical disorders occurring in the same infant: congenital myopathy with myophosphorylase deficiency (McArdle disease) and mitochondrial hepatopathy with liver failure and mitochondrial DNA depletion. METHODS: An infant girl born to consanguineous Moroccan parents had severe congenital hypotonia and hepatomegaly, developed liver failure, and died at 5 months of...
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