eRAM
encyclopedia of Rare Disease Annotation for Precision Medicine
| Disease | mitochondrial encephalomyopathy |
| Comorbidity | C0497327|dementia |
| Sentences | 1 |
| PubMedID- 24516335 | Melas is a mitochondrial syndrome defined by the clinical features of mitochondrial encephalopathy with dementia or seizures, and stroke-like episodes in individuals less than 40 years of age, myopathy with ragged red fibers on muscle biopsy, and lactic acidosis.10 melas is due to mutations of the mitochondrial genome and therefore follows a maternal inheritance pattern. |
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