TY - JOUR T1 - Chronic intestinal pseudoobstruction and ophthalmoplegia in a patient with mitochondrial myopathy. JF - Gut JO - Gut SP - 544 LP - 547 DO - 10.1136/gut.29.4.544 VL - 29 IS - 4 AU - R Cervera AU - J Bruix AU - A Bayes AU - R Blesa AU - I Illa AU - J Coll AU - A M Garcia-Puges Y1 - 1988/04/01 UR - http://gut.bmj.com/content/29/4/544.abstract N2 - 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. ER -