Clinical features, pathogenesis, and management of stroke-like episodes due to MELAS.

Metabolic Brain Disease
Syuichi TetsukaHiroyuki Kato

Abstract

Mitochondrial encephalomyopathy with lactic acidosis and stroke-like episodes (MELAS) is a disease that should be considered as a differential diagnosis to acute ischemic stroke taking into account its onset pattern and neurological symptoms, which are similar to those of an ischemic stroke. Technological advancements in neuroimaging modalities have greatly facilitated differential diagnosis between stroke and MELAS on diagnostic imaging. Stroke-like episodes in MELAS have the following features: (1) symptoms are neurolocalized according to lesion site; (2) epileptic seizures are often present; (3) lesion distribution is inconsistent with vascular territory; (4) lesions are common in the posterior brain regions; (5) lesions continuously develop in adjacent sites over several weeks or months; (6) neurological symptoms and stroke-like lesions tend to be reversible, as presented on magnetic resonance imaging; (7) the rate of recurrence is high; and; (8) brain dysfunction and atrophy are slowly progressive. The m.3243ANG mutation in the MT-TL1 gene encoding the mitochondrial tRNALeu(UUR) is most commonly associated with MELAS. Although the precise pathophysiology is still unclear, one possible hypothesis for these episodes is a neu...Continue Reading

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