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Pediatric Endocrinology Diabetes and Metabolism
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Letter to the Editor

MELAS or Leigh syndrome, that’s the question

Josef Finsterer
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  1. Klinik Landstrasse, Messerli Institute, Vienna, Austria
Pediatr Endocrinol Diabetes Metab 2021; 27 (4): 311–312
Online publish date: 2021/12/30
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With interest we read the article by Baszyńska-Wilk et al. about a 12 years old female who was diagnosed with mitochondrial encephalopathy, lactic acidosis, and stroke-like episodes (MELAS) syndrome upon the clinical presentation, blood tests, and the cerebral magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) [1]. The diagnosis was neither confirmed by biochemical nor by genetic investigations [1]. The study is appealing but raises the following concerns.
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MELAS, Leigh syndrome, polyglandular syndrome, lactic acidosis, encephalopathy


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