RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Chronic intestinal pseudoobstruction and ophthalmoplegia in a patient with mitochondrial myopathy.
JF Gut
JO Gut
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and British Society of Gastroenterology
SP 544
OP 547
DO 10.1136/gut.29.4.544
VO 29
IS 4
A1 R Cervera
A1 J Bruix
A1 A Bayes
A1 R Blesa
A1 I Illa
A1 J Coll
A1 A M Garcia-Puges
YR 1988
UL http://gut.bmj.com/content/29/4/544.abstract
AB A 38 year old woman having chronic intestinal pseudoobstruction associated with mitochondrial myopathy is reported. The clinical and radiographic features suggested the diagnosis of chronic intestinal pseudoobstruction. Muscular atrophy and ophthalmoplegia led to muscle biopsy, which disclosed accumulation of normal and abnormal mitochondria ('ragged red fibres'), characteristic of mitochondrial myopathy.