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Review
. 1996 Dec;35(12):991-5.
doi: 10.2169/internalmedicine.35.991.

Mitochondrial encephalomyopathy with elderly onset of stroke-like episodes

H Minamoto  1 , K Kawabata, B Okuda, N Shibuya, H Tachibana, M Sugita, Y Goto, I Nishino, I Nonaka
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Mitochondrial encephalomyopathy with elderly onset of stroke-like episodes

H Minamoto et al. Intern Med. 1996 Dec.
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Abstract

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.

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