Article
Functional involvement of central nervous system in mitochondrial disorders.
Electroencephalography and clinical neurophysiology - 1 Jun 1997
Di Lazzaro V, Restuccia D, Servidei S, Valeriani M, Nardone R, Manfredi G, Silvestri G, Ricci E, Tonali P
Abstract excerpt
Thirty-nine patients with mitochondrial diseases were studied with somatosensory and motor evoked potentials. Sixteen patients (41%) had clinical and 12 (31%) had neuroradiological evidence of central nervous system involvement. The overall incidence of electrophysiological abnormalities was 64%....
Topics
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Aged
- Central Nervous System
- Child
- Electroencephalography
- Evoked Potentials, Motor
- Evoked Potentials, Somatosensory
- Female
- Humans
- Magnetics
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Mitochondrial Myopathies
- Mutation
- Reaction Time