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We present two new patients with the recently described mitochondrial m. 3242G > A mutation. Although the mutation is situated next to the well known m.3243A > G mutation, the most common alteration associated with mitochondrial myopathy, encephalopathy, lactic acidosis, and stroke-like episodes (MELAS) syndrome, the clinical presentation is quite different, but characteristic. All three m. 3242G > A patients presented in the neonatal period with hypertrophic and dilated cardiomyopathy, generalized muscle hypotonia and lactic acidosis. Two additionally had creatine kinase elevation, renal tubular acidosis/dysfunction and showed a mild clinical course with a favourable psychomotor development. The third patient had more neurological involvement and died in infancy. The mutation occurred de novo in the two patients where maternal investigations were performed. The combination of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and renal tubular acidosis/renal tubular dysfunction is clinically distinctive and may represent a separate entity. (C) 2012 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.
Author(s): Wortmann SB, Champion MP, van den Heuvel L, Barth H, Trutnau B, Craig K, Lammens M, Schreuder MF, Taylor RW, Smeitink JAM, Wevers RA, Rodenburg RJ, Morava E
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: European Journal of Medical Genetics
Year: 2012
Volume: 55
Issue: 10
Pages: 552-556
Print publication date: 01/10/2012
ISSN (print): 1769-7212
ISSN (electronic): 1878-0849
Publisher: Elsevier Masson
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejmg.2012.06.002
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmg.2012.06.002
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