Psychiatric care for a person with MELAS syndrome: A case report
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MELAS Syndrome (A Case Report)
= Abstract =MELAS syndrome (mitochondrial myopathy, encephalopathy, lactic acidosis, and stroke-like episode) is a rare and currently incompletely defined mitochondrial disease involving mainly muscle and brain. We have recently seen a 17-year-old male patient who, we believe, is the first Korean case. The patient showed the classical picture of MELAS: short stature, generalized limb weakness, ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Case Reports
سال: 2021
ISSN: 2050-0904,2050-0904
DOI: 10.1002/ccr3.4146