Pearson syndrome

Pearson syndrome is very rare, less than hundred cases have been reported in medical literature worldwide.

Pearson syndrome is a mitochondrial disease characterized by sideroblastic anemia and exocrine pancreas dysfunction.

Such mitochondrial genome alterations have been correlated with extremely severe human pathologies such as the Kearns-Sayre or Pearson syndromes (10-13).

Pearson Syndrome research study of Inherited Bone Marrow Failure Syndromes (IBMFS)