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Adult-onset Mitochondrial Myopathy, Encephalopathy, Lactic Acidosis, and Stroke (MELAS)-like Encephalopathy Diagnosed Based on the Complete Sequencing of Mitochondrial DNA Extracted from Biopsied Muscle without any Myopathic Changes.
Internal medicine (Tokyo, Japan) - 1 Jan 2000
Mukai Masako, Nagata Eiichiro, Mizuma Atsushi, Yamano Mitsuhiko, Sugaya Keizo, Nishino Ichizo, Goto Yu-Ichi, Takizawa Shunya
Abstract excerpt
The clinical features of mitochondrial myopathy, encephalopathy, lactic acidosis, and stroke-like episodes (MELAS) are not uniform. We herein report a male patient with unusual MELAS-like encephalopathy who had been experiencing isolated recurrent stroke-like episodes since he was 33 years old without any particular family history. Despite an extensive investigation, he had no other signs suggestive of MELAS....
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