MELAS syndrome
mitochondrial myopathy
encephalopathy
lactic acidosis

Several trials delved into effects of -arginine in MELAS syndrome, a mitochondrial disease.

Important It is possible that the main title of the report MELAS Syndrome is not the name you expected.

Diseases caused by mutation in the mtDNA include Kearns-Sayre syndrome, MELAS syndrome and Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy.

In a supplement published in February 2012, he proposed that stroke-like episodes of memory loss and partial paralysis which do not occur with CVS are characteristic of the MELAS syndrome.

This mutation in mitochondria is associated with symptoms of intestinal problems, seasickness and Ménière's disease as well as CVS and MELAS syndrome, thus giving a shared source of the various problems that affected Darwin.

It can be used to test for certain forms of mitochondrial myopathy.

Mitochondrial myopathy is a rare condition in which the body's cellular energy system breaks down.

His condition, he said, is called mitochondrial myopathy.

Zidovudine-induced mitochondrial myopathy is associated with muscle carnitine deficiency and lipid storage.

He died of mitochondrial myopathy in Comox, British Columbia at the age of 61.

The first form of this disorder is known as COX deficiency, benign infantile mitochondrial myopathy.

Muscle biopsies are taken to aid in the diagnosis of muscle diseases (such as polymyositis, mitochondrial myopathy, etc.).

John Turvey, 61, Canadian youth activist and Order of Canada recipient, mitochondrial myopathy.

A distinction between OPMD and myasthenia gravis or mitochondrial myopathy must be made.

This poet suffers from mitochondrial myopathy, a rare form of muscular dystrophy that disrupts the body's breathing, processing of oxygen and heart rate.

Stepanek suffered from a rare form of muscular dystrophy, dysautonomic mitochondrial myopathy, that resulted in his death a month before his 14th birthday.

Campos Y, Arenas J. Muscle carnitine deficiency associated with zidovudine-induced mitochondrial myopathy.

While ragged red fibers are seen in normal aging, amounts in excess of normal aging give a diagnosis of a mitochondrial myopathy.

In 2002, at the age of 9, Joe Wise was diagnosed with mitochondrial myopathy - a severe muscular disorder affecting his legs, hips, core muscles and lungs.

Turvey worked as the Executive Director of the Downtown Eastside Youth Activities Society for 20 years before being diagnosed with mitochondrial myopathy and retiring.

CPEO is the most common manifestation of mitochondrial myopathy, occurring in an estimated two-thirds of all cases of mitochondrial myopathy.

The reasons for LeMond's difficulties in his later career are not entirely known, but at the time of his retirement he cited mitochondrial myopathy as the cause of his inability to perform.

Coenzyme Q 10 improves lactic acidosis, strokelike episodes, and epilepsy in a patient with MELAS (mitochondrial myopathy, encephalopathy, lactic acidosis, and strokelike episodes).

Kearns-Sayre syndrome (abbreviated KSS) also known as oculocraniosomatic disease or Oculocraniosomatic neuromuscular disease with ragged red fibers is a mitochondrial myopathy with a typical onset before 20 years of age.

It is a dangerous condition that may lead to encephalopathy and death.

Damage to your brain and nervous system, which is called encephalopathy.

Treatment varies according to the type and severity of the encephalopathy.

Hypertensive encephalopathy is caused by an increase in blood pressure.

"If the patient has had long-term exposure, he should be treated as a potential case of encephalopathy."

After his career, Clark was discovered to have chronic traumatic encephalopathy.

His brain, unlike others, showed no evidence of chronic traumatic encephalopathy.

Rat model is used also in research of Wernicke's encephalopathy.

It can occur in all forms of toxic metabolic encephalopathy.

The more severe forms of encephalopathy are usually fatal.

A common and dose-limiting side effect is encephalopathy (brain dysfunction).

Over the next 24 hours he developed grade 3 encephalopathy, and high flux dialysis was started.

Hepatic encephalopathy causes a range of problems, from less severe to fatal.

Encephalopathy or confusion and forgetfulness caused by poor liver function.

This can lead to confusion or even coma (hepatic encephalopathy).

The hallmark of encephalopathy is an altered mental state.

The disorder presents in the early neonatal period with progressive encephalopathy.

Severe cases of toxic encephalopathy can be life threatening.

He was to women what bovine spongiform encephalopathy is to cows.

The drug lactulose can help treat confusion and other mental changes associated with encephalopathy.

The second question I wish to ask you is if you have any news on spongiform encephalopathy.

However, in some cases, the encephalopathy may cause permanent structural changes and irreversible damage to the brain.

Defects in three of these four genes have been linked to glycine encephalopathy.

She let him stroke her hair while he told her again about spongiform encephalopathy.

Lactic acidosis can start slowly and get worse over time.

Older adults may also have a higher risk of developing lactic acidosis.

Lactic acidosis is a possible side effect from the metformin.

Older adults may be at greater risk for side effects such as low blood sugar or lactic acidosis.

It can lower your blood sugar and may increase the risk of lactic acidosis while you are taking this medicine.

If lactic acidosis is not treated quickly, it can lead to coma and death.

Cases of phenformin-induced lactic acidosis continue to be reported worldwide.

Stavudine may also be more likely to cause lactic acidosis in a pregnant woman.

Therefore, elderly people may be more sensitive to this drug, and to side effects such as lactic acidosis.

Overdose may also cause a life-threatening condition called lactic acidosis.

Some people have developed a life-threatening condition called lactic acidosis while taking this medicine.

Early signs of lactic acidosis generally get worse over time and this condition can be fatal.

A rare side effect of metformin is a condition called lactic acidosis.

Among the more severe side effects patients may experience are a hepatotoxicity or a lactic acidosis.

There is also increased risk of lactic acidosis with alcohol, nephrotoxic drugs.

Serious medical conditions can also cause lactic acidosis, which can be dangerous in those situations.

Unlike lactic acidosis caused by serious medical conditions, no damage is occurring in the body during exercise.

Metformin, a common medicine used to treat diabetes, can also cause lactic acidosis.

Some people develop lactic acidosis while taking lamivudine and zidovudine.

Metformin can rarely cause a serious (sometimes fatal) condition called lactic acidosis.

Limit alcohol while using this medication because it can increase your risk of lactic acidosis and developing low blood sugar.

Lactic acidosis due to exercise is temporary and is not harmful.

Other types of lactic acidosis can occur from side effects of drugs and serious medical conditions.

Severe hepatic necrosis and lactic acidosis may be present as well.

Lactic acidosis then occurs as a consequence of anaerobic metabolism.