Achalasia as the harbinger of a novel mitochondrial disorder in childhood

Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 512-517

  Chelimsky, Gisela ^a   Shanske, Sara ^b   Hirano, Michio ^b   Zinn, Arthur B ^b   Cohen, Mark ^b   McNeeley, Kevin ^b   Chelimsky, Thomas C ^b  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PILOCARPINE;

ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; CARDIOVASCULAR RESPONSE; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIARRHEA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DNA DETERMINATION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ESOPHAGUS ACHALASIA; ESOPHAGUS MANOMETRY; FEMALE; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GENE MUTATION; HEART RATE; HUMAN; INFANT; INTESTINE MOTILITY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA DISORDER; MITOCHONDRIAL ENCEPHALOMYOPATHY; MNGIE SYNDROME; NERVE BIOPSY; ONSET AGE; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIBLING; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; STOMACH MOTILITY; SWEAT TEST; TILT TABLE TEST; VALSALVA MANEUVER;

AGE OF ONSET; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; CHILD; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ESOPHAGEAL ACHALASIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE;

EID: 16844377409     PISSN: 02772116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.MPG.0000155185.38754.EE     Document Type: Article

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