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When should MELAS (Mitochondrial myopathy, Encephalopathy, Lactic Acidosis, and Stroke-like episodes) be the diagnosis?
Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria - 1 Nov 2015
Lorenzoni Paulo José, Werneck Lineu Cesar, Kay Cláudia Suemi Kamoi, Silvado Carlos Eduardo Soares, Scola Rosana Herminia
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Mitochondrial myopathy, Encephalopathy, Lactic Acidosis, and Stroke-like episodes (MELAS) is a rare mitochondrial disorder. Diagnostic criteria for MELAS include typical manifestations of the disease: stroke-like episodes, encephalopathy, evidence of mitochondrial dysfunction (laboratorial or histological) and known mitochondrial DNA gene mutations. Clinical features of MELAS are not necessarily uniform in the...
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