Abstract
Ten patients, two men and eight women with mitochondrial encephalomyopathy, had an A-G mutation at nucleotide pair 8,344 in the mitochondrial DNA, the most common genetic defect in myoclonus epilepsy with ragged-red fibers (MERRF). Eight patients had the clinical and pathologic characteristics of MERRF including myoclonus, seizures, cerebellar ataxia and myopathy with ragged-red fibers. Two patients had atypical symptoms such as early onset of fatal cardiac failure and late onset of rapid mental deterioration, respectively. The striking feature in our patients with the 8,344 mutation cardiac involvement and two developed progressive heart failure. In the typical MERRF patients, the proportion of mutant mitochondrial DNA in their skeletal muscles, quantified by a single strand conformation polymorphism analysis, was above 85%. However, there was no significant correlation between clinical severity, histopathological findings and the proportion of mutant mtDNA in muscle biopsy samples, suggesting that non-ragged-red fibers play an important role in the phenotype expression of the mutants.
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