Mitochondrial myopathy (medical condition): Mitochondrial diseases are very rare. However, they are very interesting because they are genetic diseases, and yet are very different to all other types of genetic disease. Surprisingly, there is actually DNA in the body that is not on any of ...more
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Mitochondrial myopathy: [MIM*251900] weakness and hypotonia of muscles, primarily those of the neck, shoulder, and pelvic girdles, with onset in infancy or childhood; on biopsy, giant bizarre mitochondria are seen located between muscle fibrils just beneath the sarcolemma. There are autosomal dominant [MIM*251900] and recessive forms due to deletions or duplications of mitochondrial DNA, with one recessive form [MIM*252010] associated with a deficiency of complex I of the mitochondrial respiratory chain.
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Mitochondrial myopathy is listed as a "rare disease" by the Office of
Rare Diseases (ORD) of the National Institutes of Health
(NIH). This means that Mitochondrial myopathy, or a subtype of Mitochondrial myopathy,
affects less than 200,000 people in the US population.
Source - National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Mitochondrial myopathy: Another name for Mitochondrial diseases (or close medical condition association).
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Mitochondrial myopathy: Mitochondrial myopathy is listed as a type of (or associated with) the following medical conditions in our database:
Some of the symptoms of Mitochondrial myopathy incude:
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Mitochondrial myopathies are a group of neuromuscular diseases caused by damage to the mitochondria - small, energy-producing structures found in every cell in the body that serve as the cells' "power plants." Nerve cells in the brain and muscles require a great deal of energy, and thus appear to be particularly damaged when mitochondrial dysfunction occurs. Some of the more common mitochondrial myopathies include Kearns-Sayre syndrome, myoclonus epilepsy with ragged-red fibers (MERRF), and mitochondrial encephalomyopathy lactic acidosis and stroke-like episodes (MELAS). (Source: excerpt from NINDS Mitochondrial Myopathies Information Page: NINDS)
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