Mitochondrial myopathy, encephalopathy, lactic acidosis, and stroke-like episodes (MELAS) with chronic renal failure : Report of mother-child cases

Clinical Neurology

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 1069-1073

  Ihara, Masafumi ^a   Tanaka, Haruo ^a   Yashiro, Masatomo ^a   Nishimura, Yo ^a  

^a NISHI KOBE MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

MELAS; Point mutation; Renal failure

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; ENCEPHALOMYOPATHY; GENETIC LINKAGE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; LACTIC ACIDOSIS; MALE; MITOCHONDRIAL MYOPATHY; MUSCLE BIOPSY; NAUSEA; POINT MUTATION; STROKE; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; VOMITING;

ADULT; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; MELAS SYNDROME; MIDDLE AGED; POINT MUTATION;

EID: 0030471049     PISSN: 0009918X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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