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The authors describe a rare group of symptoms, resulting in progressive external ophthalmoplegia, retinal pigment epithelial dysfunction and cardiac conduction disturbance. The illness belongs to the group of mitochondrial cytopathies. The case extends over the diagnostic possibilities, with special attention on electromyographic diagnostic, clinical symptoms, pathomechanism of the disease, and...

The Kearns-Sayre syndrome is a mitochondrial myopathy characterised by ptosis, chronic progressive external ophthalmoplegia, abnormal retinal pigmentation, and cardiac conduction defects. A unique case is reported in which there was rapid development ofprogressive congestive cardiac failure that required cardiac transplantation. A review of published reports of mitochondrial myopathy shows that...

hypoparathyroidism as the first manifestation of kearns-sayre syndrome: a case report   how to cite this article: ashrafzadeh f, ghaemi n, akhondian j, beiraghi toosi m, elmi s. hypoparathyroidism as the first manifestation of kearns-sayre syndrome: a case report. iran j child neurol. 2013 autumn;7(4):53-57.     objective kearns-sayre syndrome is a mitochondrial myopathy, which was first descri...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this work was to determine the effectiveness and possible complications encountered with bilateral fascia lata lid suspension used to correct blepharoptosis in patients with Kearns-Sayre syndrome. METHODS This was a retrospective study of seven patients with Kearns-Sayre syndrome who had a minimum of 1 year of follow-up. A bilateral fascia lata sling was used to corr...