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Comprehensive diagnostic criteria for MELAS syndrome: A case study involving an elderly patient with MT-TWm.5541C>T mutation
2022-03-30
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<h4>Background: </h4> Mitochondrial encephalopathy, lactic acidosis, and stroke-like episodes (MELAS) syndrome is a matrilineal hereditary multi-system disease due to mutations of mitochondrial DNA. Though the initial diagnostic criteria prevail till nowadays, which take a range of clinical phenotypes into consideration including clinical onset after the age of 40, a confirmative diagnostic standard for MELAS is s...
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- cef8fe0f-8214-5019-bb51-5c0f1904d629
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- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-961557/v2
