Internal Medicine
Online ISSN : 1349-7235
Print ISSN : 0918-2918
ISSN-L : 0918-2918
Mitochondrial Encephalomyopathy with Elderly Onset of Stroke-Like Episodes
Hideaki MINAMOTOKeita KAWABATABungo OKUDANaomi SHIBUYAHisao TACHIBANAMinoru SUGITAYuichi GOTOIchizo NISHINOIkuya NONAKA
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1996 Volume 35 Issue 12 Pages 991-995

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A 52-year-old woman with a history of a hearing disturbance since age 20 experienced visual hallucinations and convulsions, followed by right hemiparesis and aphasia. On the basis of a muscle biopsy and mitochondrial DNA analysis, she was diagnosed as mitochondrial myopathy, encephalopathy, lactic acidosis, and stroke-like episodes (MELAS). This case is unique in that the stroke-like episodes occurred 30 years after disease onset.
(Internal Medicine 35: 991-995, 1996)

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