Mitochondrial DNA in migraine with aura

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Migraine and the MELAS (mitochondrial myopathy, encephalopathy, lactic acidosis, and stroke-like episodes) syndrome have some clinical features in common. First, cerebral infarctions, most often in the posterior cerebral regions, which are a main symptom of MELAS, may complicate migraine. Second, migrainous headache with vomiting is also a characteristic feature of the MELAS syndrome. Less frequently, hemicranial...

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