Mitochondrial myopathy Totally Explained

Everything about Mitochondrial Myopathy totally explained

Mitochondrial myopathy are a type of myopathy associated with mitochondrial disease.

Treatment

Although no cure currently exists, there's some hope for a treatment for this whole class of hereditary diseases with the use of an embryotic mitochindrial transplant.

Examples

Examples of Mitochondrial myopathy 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

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