Mitochondrial myopathy, encephalopathy, lactic acidosis and stroke-like episodes: an important cause of stroke in young people.

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Mitochondrial myopathy, encephalopathy, lactic acidosis and stroke-like episodes is a progressive, multisystem mitochondrial disease affecting children and young adults. Patients acquire disability through stroke-like episodes and have an increased mortality. Eighty per cent of cases have the mitochondrial mutation m.3243A>G which is linked to respiratory transport chain dysfunction and oxidative stress in energy...

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