In this review, we comprehensively describe ophthalmic diseases with mitochondrial DNA mutation such as Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON), progressive external ophthalmoplegia (PEO) and Kearns-Sayre Syndrome (KSS). Ocular involvement is a prominent clinical feature of various mitochondrial diseases as well. The known mitochondrial disorders such as Mitochondrial encephalomyopathy, lact...

Human Mitochondrial Leucyl-tRNA Synthetase Corrects Mitochondrial Dysfunctions Due to the tRNA A3243G Mutation, Associated with Mitochondrial Encephalomyopathy, Lactic Acidosis, and Stroke-Like Symptoms and Diabetes Ronghua Li and Min-Xin Guan* Division of Human Genetics, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, and Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati Coll...

Mitochondrial neurogastrointestinal encephalomyopathy is a rare multisystemic autosomic recessive disorder characterized by: onset typically before the age of 30 years; ptosis; progressive external ophthalmoplegia; gastrointestinal dysmotility; cachexia; peripheral neuropathy; and leucoencephalopathy. The disease is caused by mutations in the TYMP gene encoding thymidine phosphorylasethymine ph...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Most diffusion MRI studies of mitochondrial encephalomyopathy, lactic acidosis, and stroke-like episode stroke-like lesions report high- or normal-apparent diffusion coefficient, and this has been used to differentiate stroke-like lesion from ischemic stroke. There are, however, 3 recent reports of restricted diffusion in the acute phase of the stroke-like lesions. The pu...

Mitochondrial encephalomyopathy, lactic acidosis, and stroke-like episodes (MELAS) syndrome1 is one of the most frequently inherited mitochondrial disorders. MELAS syndrome is a systemic disease with multiple organ involvement.2 The most common mutation in MELAS is the m.3243A>G mutation in the MT-TL1 gene.2.