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Acute auditory agnosia as the presenting hearing disorder in MELAS.
Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology - 1 Dec 2008
Miceli Gabriele, Conti Guido, Cianfoni Alessandro, Di Giacopo Raffaella, Zampetti Patrizia, Servidei Serenella
Abstract excerpt
MELAS is commonly associated with peripheral hearing loss. Auditory agnosia is a rare cortical auditory impairment, usually due to bilateral temporal damage. We document, for the first time, auditory agnosia as the presenting hearing disorder in MELAS. A young woman with MELAS (A3243G mtDNA mutation) suffered from acute cortical hearing damage following a single stroke-like episode, in the absence of previous...
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