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Adult onset Leigh syndrome with mitochondrial DNA 8344 A>G mutation.
Journal of clinical neuroscience : official journal of the Neurosurgical Society of Australasia - 1 Nov 2014
Han Jee-Young, Sung Jung-Joon, Park Hong-Kyun, Yoon Byung-Nam, Lee Kwang-Woo
Abstract excerpt
We report a pedigree of adult-onset Leigh syndrome (LS) with mitochondrial mutation 8344 A>G. A 38-year-old woman presented with optic neuropathy, weakness and cognitive impairment. Family history of optic neuropathy and systemic involvement was suggestive of mitochondrial encephalopathy. Genetic and radiologic studies showed m.8344 A>G mutation with characteristics of LS. To our knowledge this is the first case...
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