Article
Reversible infantile mitochondrial diseases.
Journal of inherited metabolic disease - 1 May 2015
Boczonadi Veronika, Bansagi Boglarka, Horvath Rita
Abstract excerpt
Mitochondrial diseases are usually severe and progressive conditions; however, there are rare forms that show remarkable spontaneous recoveries. Two homoplasmic mitochondrial tRNA mutations (m.14674T>C/G in mt-tRNA(Glu)) have been reported to cause severe infantile mitochondrial myopathy in the first months of life. If these patients survive the first year of life by extensive life-sustaining measures they...
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