Article
"Drop attacks" as first clinical symptoms in a child carrying MTTK m.8344A>G mutation.
Folia neuropathologica - 1 Jan 2013
Buda Piotr, Piekutowska-Abramczuk Dorota, Karkucińska-Więckowska Agnieszka, Jurkiewicz Elżbieta, Chełstowska Sylwia, Pajdowska Magdalena, Migdał Marek, Książyk Janusz, Kotulska Katarzyna, Pronicka Ewa
Abstract excerpt
UNLABELLED: We describe a child with dyslexia and difficulty in school who, at the age of 13 years, began to suffer from several head injuries resulting from falls of uncertain cause. Two years later, the patient developed symptoms of a severe mitochondrial disorder (involving bulbar-pyramidal paralysis, ophthalmoplegia, and hyperlactatemia) that coincided with VPA administration. Brain MR imaging revealed...
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