Mitochondrial myopathy
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| Mitochondrial myopathy Classification and external resources | |
| Image:562px-Diagram of a human mitochondrion.png | |
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| Simplified structure of a typical mitochondrion | |
| ICD-10 | G71.3 |
| MeSH | D017240 |
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Overview
Mitochondrial myopathy are a type of myopathy associated with mitochondrial disease.
Examples include:
Mitochondrial encephalomyopathy, lactic acidosis, and stroke-like syndrome (MELAS)
- varying degrees of cognitive impairment and dementia
- lactic acidosis
- strokes
- transient ischemic attacks
- hearing loss
- dysmotility
- weight loss
Myoclonic epilepsy and ragged-red fibers (MERRF)
- progressive myoclonic epilepsy
- clumps of diseased mitochondria accumulate in the subsarcolemmal region of the muscle fiber and appear as "ragged-red fibers" when muscle is stained with modified Gomori trichrome stain
- short stature
Kearns-Sayre syndrome (KSS)
- external ophthalmoplegia
- cardiac conduction defects
- sensory-neural hearing loss
Progressive external ophthalmoplegia (PEO)
- progressive ophthalmoparesis is the cardinal feature
- symptomatic overlap with many other mitochondrial myopathies
Mitochondrial diseases | |
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| Myopathies | MELAS - MERRF - KSS - PEO |
| Other | DAD - Friedreich's ataxia - LHON - Leigh's - NARP - MNGIE - PCD - PDHA - Pearson syndrome |
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