An 80-year-old Mitochondrial Disease Patient with A3243G tRNALeu (UUR) Gene Presenting Cardiac Dysfunction as the Main Symptom

Internal Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 405-408

  Higashikata, Takeo ^a   Koyama, Jun ^a   Shimada, Hirohide ^a   Yazaki, Masahide ^a   Owa, Mafumi ^a   Ikeda, Shu Ichi ^a  

^a SHINSHU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cardiomyopathy; Metabolic disorder; Mitochondrial DNA

Indexed keywords

LEUCINE TRANSFER RNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; GENETICS; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; MELAS SYNDROME; MITOCHONDRIAL MYOPATHY; MUTATION; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIOMYOPATHY, HYPERTROPHIC; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MELAS SYNDROME; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MITOCHONDRIAL MYOPATHIES; MUTATION; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RNA, TRANSFER, LEU;

EID: 0035347538     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.40.405     Document Type: Article

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