Maternally inherited diabetes mellitus, deafness, chronic progressive external ophthalmoplegia and myopathy as the result of A3243G mutation of mtDNA

Orvosi hetilap
Anikó GálZsuzsanna Pál

Abstract

Mitochondrial encephalomyopathy, lactic acidosis and stroke-like episodes (MELAS) syndrome are caused mainly by the A3243G mutation of the mitochondrial genome. The A3243G substitution of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is also responsible for various, other clinical phenotypes and syndromes. Here we report the case of a 33-year-old woman, with childhood onset ophthalmoplegia externa, progressive, generalised exercise intolerability, muscle weakness, hypacusis and diabetes mellitus as the symptoms of mitochondrial disease. Genetic analysis of the mitochondrial DNA revealed a heteroplasmic A to G substitution at position 3243 in the tRNS Leu(UUR) gene. In our case the classical MELAS phenotype has not yet appeared, however, some examples show in the literature that maternally inherited diabetes mellitus, progressive hypacusis, progressive ophthalmoplegia externa, exercise intolerance, and myopathy are often linked to as isolated symptoms of A3243G mutation. The phenotype in the family is consistent, the proband's daughter has ptosis, exercise intolerance, and myopathy, too. A brief summary of the different clinical phenotypes associated with A3243G mutation, and of the different mtDNA mutations which can cause chronic progressive opht...Continue Reading

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