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Clinical features of MELAS and mitochondrial DNA mutations.
Muscle & nerve. Supplement - 1 Jan 1995
Goto Y
Abstract excerpt
MELAS (mitochondrial myopathy, encephalopathy, lactic acidosis and strokelike episodes) is a distinct disorder characterized clinically by repeated strokelike attacks mostly beginning in childhood. We have paid special attention to the blood vessel abnormality seen in most biopsied muscle, in terms of the strokelike episodes in MELAS. The 3243 mutation in 80% of the typical MELAS patients has also been found in...
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