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Episodic weakness due to mitochondrial DNA MT-ATP6/8 mutations.
Neurology - 19 Nov 2013
Auré Karine, Dubourg Odile, Jardel Claude, Clarysse Lucie, Sternberg Damien, Fournier Emmanuel, Laforêt Pascal, Streichenberger Nathalie, Petiot Philippe, Gervais-Bernard Hélène, Vial Christophe, Bedat-Millet Anne-Laure, Drouin-Garraud Valérie, Bouillaud Frédéric, Vandier Christophe, Fontaine Bertrand, Lombès Anne
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: To report that homoplasmic deleterious mutations in the mitochondrial DNA MT-ATP6/8 genes may be responsible for acute episodes of limb weakness mimicking periodic paralysis due to channelopathies and dramatically responding to acetazolamide. METHODS: Mitochondrial DNA sequencing and r...
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