Successful treatment with succinate in a patient with MELAS

Internal Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 427-431

  Oguro, Hiroaki ^a   Iijima, Kenichi ^a   Takahashi, Kazuo ^a   Nagai, Atsushi ^a   Bokura, Hirokazu ^a   Yamaguchi, Shuhei ^a   Kobayashi, Shotai ^a  

^a SHIMANE UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

MELAS; Succinate; Therapy

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CLONAZEPAM; CYTOCHROME C; PHENYTOIN; SUCCINIC ACID; UBIQUINONE; VALPROIC ACID; ZONISAMIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONVULSION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG RESPONSE; FLACCID PARALYSIS; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERNATREMIA; MALE; MELAS SYNDROME; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; RECURRENT DISEASE; STROKE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADULT; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MELAS SYNDROME; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SUCCINIC ACID; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 3042613363     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.43.427     Document Type: Article

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