Mitochondrial neurogastrointestinal encephalomyopathy presenting with protein-losing gastroenteropathy and serum copper deficiency: A case report

Clinical Neurology

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 917-922

  Hamano, Hitoshi ^a   Ohta, Tami ^a   Takekawa, Yukiko ^a   Kouda, Katsuaki ^a   Shinohara, Yukito ^a  

^a TOKAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Copper deficiency; Mitochondrial myopathy; MNGIE; Opthalmoparesis; Protein losing gastroenteropathy

Indexed keywords

ALPHA 1 ANTITRYPSIN; COPPER; CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASCITES; CASE REPORT; COPPER BLOOD LEVEL; COPPER DEFICIENCY; DIARRHEA; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ENCEPHALOMYOPATHY; ENZYME DEFICIENCY; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; INTESTINE PSEUDOOBSTRUCTION; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NAUSEA; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPHTHALMOPLEGIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN LOSING GASTROENTEROPATHY; PTOSIS; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; VOMITING;

BRAIN; COPPER; CYTOCHROME-C OXIDASE DEFICIENCY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL PSEUDO-OBSTRUCTION; MIDDLE AGED; MITOCHONDRIAL ENCEPHALOMYOPATHIES; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; OPHTHALMOPLEGIA; PROTEIN-LOSING ENTEROPATHIES; SYNDROME;

EID: 0031410918     PISSN: 0009918X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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