Vol 48, No 2 (2014)

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Heterogeneous phenotypic manifestations of maternally inherited deafness associated with the mitochondrial A3243G mutation. Case report

Magdalena Hoptasz1, Adam Szczuciński12, Jacek Losy134
DOI: 10.1016/j.pjnns.2013.12.007
Neurol Neurochir Pol 2014;48(2):150-153.

Abstract

The A3243G mutation is one of the most frequent mutations of mitochondrial DNA. The phenotypic expression of the A3243G mutation is variable and causes a wide range of syndromic and non-syndromic clinical disorders. Mitochondrial myopathy, encephalopathy, lactic acidosis and stroke-like episodes (MELAS) syndrome is the most frequent syndromic manifestation of the A3243G mutation. Stroke-like episodes seem to be the dominant feature of MELAS. We have investigated the case of a family with A3243G mutation, in which a dominant symptom in three generations was the maternally inherited hearing loss with absence of stroke-like episodes. Besides deafness, we found also other clinical features such as myopathy, neuropathy, migraine, ataxia, short stature, diabetes mellitus, and cardiomyopathy.

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