Mitochondrial Encephalomyopathy With Lactic Acidosis and Strokelike Episodes Presenting Before 50 Years of Age: When a Stroke Is Not Just a Stroke

JAMA Neurol. 2016 May 1;73(5):604-6. doi: 10.1001/jamaneurol.2015.5061.

Authors

Cláudia Marques-Matos¹, Jorge Reis², Carina Reis³, Lígia Castro⁴, Marta Carvalho¹

Affiliations

¹ Neurology Department, Centro Hospitalar São João, Porto, Portugal2Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal.
² Pathology Department, Centro Hospitalar São João, Porto, Portugal.
³ Neuroradiology Department, Centro Hospitalar São João, Porto, Portugal.
⁴ Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal.

PMID: 26953663
DOI: 10.1001/jamaneurol.2015.5061

No abstract available

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Age of Onset
Brain / diagnostic imaging
DNA Mutational Analysis
Humans
MELAS Syndrome / diagnostic imaging
MELAS Syndrome / genetics
MELAS Syndrome / physiopathology*
Male
Middle Aged
Mutation / genetics
RNA, Transfer, Leu / genetics
Stroke / diagnostic imaging
Stroke / genetics
Stroke / physiopathology*

Substances

MT-TL1 tRNA, human
RNA, Transfer, Leu