Article
[Mitochondrial arteriopathy as a cause of spontaneous dissection of cerebral arteries].
Zhurnal nevrologii i psikhiatrii imeni S.S. Korsakova - 1 Jan 2010
Kalashnikova L A, Sakharova A V, Dobrynina L A, Mir-Kasimov M F, Chaĭkovskaia R P, Konovalov R N, Protskiĭ S V, Shabalina A A, Kostyreva M V
Abstract excerpt
The vascular wall weakness caused by dysplastic alterations predisposes to the spontaneous dissection of cerebral arteries. The authors hypothesized for the first time that dysplasia might be the result of mitochondrial cytopathy. To test this hypothesis, the muscle biopsy was conducted in 3 male patients, aged 30-38 years, with the spontaneous dissection of the internal carotid (2) and posterior cerebral (1)...
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