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Pleuroparenchymal fibroelastosis in monogenic <i>DGUOK</i> -associated mitochondriopathy
2026-04-09
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<h4>Background</h4> Pleuroparenchymal fibroelastosis (PPFE) is a rare, fibrotic lung disease with poor prognosis, usually affecting adults which most commonly occurs idiopathically. Biallelic pathogenic variants in DGUOK cause mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) depletion syndrome, predominantly affecting infants with severe hepatic and neurological symptoms. Detailed description of pulmonary manifestations with late-onse...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 51c11565-fc87-5a11-b396-6147385c54a9
- DOI
- 10.64898/2026.04.08.26349275
