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Sensorineural hearing loss in patients with chronic progressive external ophthalmoplegia or Kearns-Sayre syndrome.
Journal of neurology - 1 Sept 2005
Kornblum C, Broicher R, Walther E, Herberhold S, Klockgether T, Herberhold C, Schröder R
Abstract excerpt
In the present study we assessed the prevalence and nature of hearing loss in patients with chronic progressive external ophthalmoplegia (CPEO) or Kearns-Sayre syndrome (KSS) due to single large-scale mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) deletion or mtDNA tRNA (Leu (UUR)) A3243G point mutation (A3243G PM). 14 patients with mtDNA deletion and three patients with A3243G PM underwent audiological evaluation comprising...
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