2012
DOI: 10.1136/postgradmedj-2011-130326
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Mitochondrial myopathy, encephalopathy, lactic acidosis and stroke-like episodes: an important cause of stroke in young people

Abstract: Mitochondrial myopathy, encephalopathy, lactic acidosis and stroke-like episodes is a progressive, multisystem mitochondrial disease affecting children and young adults. Patients acquire disability through stroke-like episodes and have an increased mortality. Eighty per cent of cases have the mitochondrial mutation m.3243A>G which is linked to respiratory transport chain dysfunction and oxidative stress in energy demanding organs, particularly muscle and brain. It typically presents with seizures, headaches an… Show more

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“…DISCUSSION MELAS is a multisystem, maternally inherited mitochondrial disorder with a relapsing and remitting type course which can present with a wide spectrum of manifestations ranging from seizures and stroke-like episodes 5,6 to maternally inherited diabetes with or without deafness. Over 40 causative mitochondrial DNA mutations have been documented, with 80% of cases carrying the m.3243A.G mutation, affecting the respiratory transport chain, and 10% the m.3271T.C transfer RNA mutation.…”
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confidence: 99%
“…DISCUSSION MELAS is a multisystem, maternally inherited mitochondrial disorder with a relapsing and remitting type course which can present with a wide spectrum of manifestations ranging from seizures and stroke-like episodes 5,6 to maternally inherited diabetes with or without deafness. Over 40 causative mitochondrial DNA mutations have been documented, with 80% of cases carrying the m.3243A.G mutation, affecting the respiratory transport chain, and 10% the m.3271T.C transfer RNA mutation.…”
Section: Sectionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…No se cuenta al momento con datos patognomónicos en los estudios de imagen; sin embargo, las lesiones que se consideran como migratorias que no se encuentran bien delimitadas a un territorio arterial específico, como se comentó previamente, serían muy sugerentes de un desorden de tipo metabólico o mitocondrial. 1 En los estudios en plasma no existen patrones patognomónicos de la enfermedad. Las cifras elevadas de lactato indican metabolismo anaeróbico como dato inespecífico.…”
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“…1 Los estudios en líquido céfalo raquídeo son útiles para descartar otras patologías como encefalitis o vasculitis; Los estudios en líquido céfalo raquídeo tanto virológicos como bacteriológicos usualmente son negativos; los niveles de piruvato y lactato usualmente aparecen incrementados, lo cual podría hacer sospechar el diagnóstico inicial. 1 Otros hallazgos como las cardiomiopatías se han descrito en 20% de los pacientes con MELAS y la mutación A3243G; sin embargo, no existen informes de cardiomiopatía con la mutación T3271C. Del mismo modo, el retraso en el desarrollo de caracteres sexuales así como la deficiencia parcial de hormona de crecimiento se ha visto asociado en su mayoría a la mutación A3243G.…”
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