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Ophthalmoplegia in Mitochondrial Disease

Authors
 Sang-Jun Lee  ;  Ji-Hoon Na  ;  Jinu Han  ;  Young-Mock Lee 
Citation
 YONSEI MEDICAL JOURNAL, Vol.59(10) : 1190-1196, 2018 
Journal Title
YONSEI MEDICAL JOURNAL
ISSN
 0513-5796 
Issue Date
2018
Keywords
Kearns-Sayre syndrome ; Mitochondrial diseases ; chronic progressive external ophthalmoplegia ; ophthalmoplegia
Abstract
PURPOSE: To evaluate the classification, diagnosis, and natural course of ophthalmoplegia associated with mitochondrial disease.

MATERIALS AND METHODS: Among 372 patients with mitochondrial disease who visited our hospital between January 2006 and January 2016, 21 patients with ophthalmoplegia were retrospectively identified. Inclusion criteria included onset before 20 years of age, pigmentary retinopathy, and cardiac involvement. The 16 patients who were finally included in the study were divided into three groups according to disease type: Kearns-Sayre syndrome (KSS), KSS-like, and chronic progressive external ophthalmoplegia (CPEO).

RESULTS: The prevalences of clinical findings were as follows: ptosis and retinopathy, both over 80%; myopathy, including extraocular muscles, 75%; lactic acidosis, 71%; and elevated levels of serum creatine kinase, 47%. Half of the patients had normal magnetic resonance imaging findings. A biochemical enzyme assay revealed mitochondrial respiratory chain complex I defect as the most common (50%). The prevalence of abnormal muscle findings in light or electron microscopic examinations was 50% each, while that of large-scale mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) deletions in a gene study was 25%. We compared the KSS and KSS-like groups with the CPEO patient group, which showed pigmentary retinopathy (p<0.001), cardiac conduction disease (p=0.013), and large-scale mtDNA deletions (p=0.038). KSS and KSS-like groups also had gastrointestinal tract disorders such as abnormal gastrointestinal motility (p=0.013) unlike the CPEO group.

CONCLUSION: Patients with KSS had gastrointestinal symptoms, which may indicate another aspect of systemic involvement. The presence of large-scale mtDNA deletions was an objective diagnostic factor for KSS and a gene study may be helpful for evaluating patients with KSS.
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DOI
10.3349/ymj.2018.59.10.1190
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1. College of Medicine (의과대학) > Dept. of Ophthalmology (안과학교실) > 1. Journal Papers
1. College of Medicine (의과대학) > Dept. of Pediatrics (소아과학교실) > 1. Journal Papers
Yonsei Authors
Na, Ji Hoon(나지훈) ORCID logo https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3051-2010
Lee, Young Mock(이영목) ORCID logo https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5838-249X
Han, Jinu(한진우) ORCID logo https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8607-6625
URI
https://ir.ymlib.yonsei.ac.kr/handle/22282913/167307
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