Reversible Brain Dysfunction in MELAS Syndrome |
Jin-Seong Chung, Hak-Seung Lee, Hyun-Young Park, Hyuk Chang, Yo-Sik Kim, and Kwang-Ho Cho |
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Copyright © 2006 The Korean Society of Clinical Neurophysiology |
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ABSTRACT |
The MELAS (Mitochondrial Encephalomyopathy with Lactic Acidosis, and Stroke-like episodes) syndrome is one of the inherited mitochondrial disorder. We have experienced a 16-year-old girl with headaches and left hemianopsia. Diagnosis of MELAS syndrome with multiple brain parenchymal lesions was confirmed by gene study. The stroke-like lesion of MELAS syndrome showed significant improvement in radiological follow up study. Therefore, MRI findingsin MELAS could be interpreted as metabolic cellular dysfunction rather than ischemic vasculopathy |
Key words:
MELAS syndrome, Stroke-like lesion |
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