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[Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON) with mutation at G3460A and MS-like phenotype].
Neurologia i neurochirurgia polska - 1 Jan 2000
Jamrozik Zygmunt, Tutaj Andrzej, Piechowski-Jóźwiak Bartłomiej, Mroczek-Tońska Katarzyna, Bartnik Ewa, Kwieciński Hubert
Abstract excerpt
A sporadic case of a 31 year-old woman with genetically confirmed diagnosis of LHON was presented. Both her optic nerves were affected, with a 5-year interval between the onset in one eye and the loss of vision in the second one. Besides optic atrophy clinical and laboratory signs of multiple sclerosis were found. A review of the literature suggests that the G3460A mutation present in this case rarely coexists...
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