[CR-01] Mitochondrial myopathy in a 50-year-old woman mimicking ocolar myasthenia: the fifth reported case of Kearns-Sayre syndrome in Thailand
Mitochondria are intracellolar organelles that play important roles in energy-producing and organismal survival via oxidative phosphorylation. The defection of this system leads to mitochondrial dysfunction and mitochondrial myopathies. The usual ocolar motor presentation is a chronic, symmetrical, and diffuse weakness of extraocolar muscle. We described a 50-year-old woman of Kearns-Sayre syndrome (KSS) ...
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chronic progressive external ophthalmoplegia, Kearns-Sayre syndrome, mitochondrial myopathy, ocolar myasthenia
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Brief communications
Disseminated Tuberculosis in a Mother with Diffuse Large B-cell Lymphoma resulting in Placental and Inferred Congenital Tuberculosis: An Autopsy Case Report
Tuberculosis of the placenta is a rare condition which mainly occurs in the immunosuppressed individuals especially in acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) and hematologic malignancy9. Tuberculosis can spread to the fetus via hematogenous or cervicovaginal route and result in congenital tuberculosis....
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disseminated tuberculosis, diffuse large b-cell lymphoma, pregnancy, placental tuberculosis, congenital tuberculosis
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Case Reports
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