Article
Renal and skin involvement in a patient with complete Kearns-Sayre syndrome.
American journal of medical genetics - 15 Mar 1991
Mori K, Narahara K, Ninomiya S, Goto Y, Nonaka I
Abstract excerpt
We report on a 13-year-old girl with complete Kearns-Sayre syndrome (KSS) and unusual manifestations of anhidrosis and de Toni-Fanconi-Debré syndrome which preceded by several years the onset of KSS triad. Histochemical examination of skeletal muscle showed focal deficiency of cytochrome c oxidase (CCO). Southern blot analysis of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) demonstrated a deletion of 5.4 kb in 60% of the total...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Biopsy
- Blotting, Southern
- Cytochrome-c Oxidase Deficiency
- DNA, Mitochondrial
- Electron Transport Complex IV
- Fanconi Syndrome
- Female
- Genetic Variation
- Humans
- Hypohidrosis
