Inappropriate intracranial hemodynamics in the natural course of MELAS

Brain and Development

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 100-105

  Nishioka, Junko ^a   Akita, Yukihiro ^a   Yatsuga, Shuichi ^a   Katayama, Koujyu ^a   Matsuishi, Toyojiro ^a   Ishibashi, Masatoshi ^a   Koga, Yasutoshi ^a  

^a KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Endothelial dysfunction; MELAS; Mitochondrial angiopathy; Mitochondrial disorders; Mitochondrial DNA mutation; SPM SPECT; Strokelike episodes

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN MITOCHONDRION; BRAIN PERFUSION; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MELAS SYNDROME; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; SCHOOL CHILD; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MELAS SYNDROME; MUTATION; RNA, TRANSFER, LEU; TECHNETIUM TC 99M EXAMETAZIME; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 38749123431     PISSN: 03877604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.braindev.2007.06.008     Document Type: Article

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