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Lookup NU author(s): Dr Mika Martikainen, Professor Patrick Chinnery
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© 2015, BMJ Publishing Group. All rights Reserved. Mitochondrial diseases are inherited disorders of oxidative phosphorylation that present with a multitude of clinical features in different combinations and with various inheritance patterns. To complicate the issue further, the clinical features of mitochondrial disorders overlap with common neurological and nonneurological diseases. This presents a diagnostic challenge: when is a rare mitochondrial disease responsible for a more ‘common or garden’ neurological presentation, and how often are neurologists missing them in routine clinical practice? Here, we briefly review some common clinical features associated with mitochondrial disease, and provide some clues as to how patients with these mitochondrial disorders might be identified. We discuss both ‘chameleons’-mitochondrial disorders that may look like something else, and ‘mimics’-other conditions that may clinically resemble mitochondrial disease. The diagnosis sometimes needs highly specialised tests, but the advent of ‘next generation’ sequencing will simplify the clinical approach over the next few years.
Author(s): Martikainen MH, Chinnery PF
Publication type: Review
Publication status: Published
Journal: Practical Neurology
Year: 2015
Volume: 15
Issue: 6
Pages: 424-435
Print publication date: 01/12/2015
Online publication date: 22/06/2015
Acceptance date: 28/06/2015
ISSN (print): 1474-7758
ISSN (electronic): 1474-7766
Publisher: BMJ Publishing Group
URL: http://doi.org/10.1136/practneurol-2015-001191
DOI: 10.1136/practneurol-2015-001191
