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Query: UMLS:C0162671 (
MELAS
)
587
document(s) hit in 31,850,051 MEDLINE articles (0.00 seconds)
MELAS syndrome
(mitochondrial encephalopathy with lactic acidosis and stroke-like episodes) is a rare genetic condition whose differential diagnosis is often posed with juvenile stroke, but more rarely even with inflammatory/
infectious encephalitis
, causing diagnostic challenges. Here we report the case of a young man harbouring the m.3243A>G
MELAS
mutation presenting an acute onset mimicking the clinical and neuroimaging features of infective encephalitis.
...
PMID:Acute encephalopathy of the temporal lobes leading to m.3243A>G. When MELAS is not always MELAS. 2745 32
