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Beneficial effect of pyruvate therapy on Leigh syndrome due to a novel mutation in PDH E1α gene.
Brain & development - 1 Feb 2012
Koga Yasutoshi, Povalko Nataliya, Katayama Koujyu, Kakimoto Noriko, Matsuishi Toyojiro, Naito Etsuo, Tanaka Masashi
Abstract excerpt
Leigh syndrome (LS) is a progressive untreatable degenerating mitochondrial disorder caused by either mitochondrial or nuclear DNA mutations. A patient was a second child of unconsanguineous parents. On the third day of birth, he was transferred to neonatal intensive care units because of severe lactic acidosis. Since he was showing continuous lactic acidosis, the oral supplementation of dichloroacetate (DCA) was...
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