'Cerebral palsy' due to mitochondrial cytopathy

J Paediatr Child Health. 2004 Dec;40(12):714-5. doi: 10.1111/j.1440-1754.2004.00518.x.

Abstract

Two children aged 10 and 13 years with initially static motor problems, diagnosed as cerebral palsy, were found to have respiratory chain defects after developing a progressive course and multisystem involvement. Mitochondrial cytopathies should be considered in the differential diagnosis of cerebral palsy.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Brain / pathology*
  • Cerebral Palsy / diagnosis*
  • Cerebral Palsy / etiology
  • Child
  • Child, Preschool
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Endophthalmitis / etiology
  • Female
  • Growth Hormone / deficiency
  • Humans
  • Infant
  • Kearns-Sayre Syndrome / complications
  • Kearns-Sayre Syndrome / diagnosis*
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Muscle Hypotonia / etiology
  • Muscles / pathology

Substances

  • Growth Hormone