These tools will no longer be maintained as of December 31, 2024. Archived website can be found here. PubMed4Hh GitHub repository can be found here. Contact NLM Customer Service if you have questions.


Pubmed for Handhelds

PUBMED FOR HANDHELDS

Search MEDLINE/PubMed

  • Title: Movement disorders in mitochondrial myopathies. A study of nine cases with two autopsy studies.
    Author: Truong DD, Harding AE, Scaravilli F, Smith SJ, Morgan-Hughes JA, Marsden CD.
    Journal: Mov Disord; 1990; 5(2):109-17. PubMed ID: 2325672.
    Abstract:
    Of 85 consecutive patients with mitochondrial myopathy, 29 had clinically significant central nervous system involvement. Nine of these had movement disorders that included dystonia, chorea, parkinsonism, and myoclonus. Autopsy studies of one patient with ataxia, dementia, and parkinsonism followed by dystonia showed the features of olivopontocerebellar atrophy with additional degenerative changes in the basal ganglia. Postmortem in a further case with myoclonus, deafness, muscle weakness, retinopathy, and ataxia showed symmetrical mineralisation of the striatopallidodentatal system.
    [Abstract] [Full Text] [Related] [New Search]