Late-Onset Melas with Midd: An Uncommon Age of Presentation

ABSTRACT: Objective: Maternally inherited diabetes and deafness (MIDD) is a rare form of diabetes caused by a mutation in mitochondrial DNA, usually a point mutation at position 3243 in the leucine tRNA gene. This same mutation can cause a rare but severe syndrome called mitochondrial encephalomyopa...

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Main Authors: Heenam Goel, MBBS, Karina Szczepanczyk, MD, Faryal S. Mirza, MD
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2018-05-01
Series:AACE Clinical Case Reports
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2376060520304971