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ReviewAnnals of medicine2013

Diagnosis and treatment of mitochondrial myopathies.

Gerald Pfeffer, Patrick F Chinnery

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Review in Annals of medicine, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 70 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

70 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Effect of L-carnitine on exercise performance in patients with mitochondrial myopathy.Brazilian journal of medical and biological research = Revista brasileira de pesquisas medicas e biologica · 2015
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  6. Advances in Management of Mitochondrial Myopathies.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  11. Red Flags in Primary Mitochondrial Diseases: What Should We Recognize?International journal of molecular sciences · 2023
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  16. Clinical score for early diagnosis of myotonic dystrophy type 2.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2023
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  18. Precision mitochondrial medicine.Cambridge prisms. Precision medicine · 2023
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10 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Gerald PfefferInstitute of Genetic Medicine, Newcastle University, Newcastle NE13BZ, United Kingdom.
Patrick F Chinnery

Funding

Medical Research CouncilWellcome Trust 096919
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mitochondrial disorders are a heterogeneous group of disorders resulting from primary dysfunction of the respiratory chain. Muscle tissue is highly metabolically active, and therefore myopathy is a common element of the clinical presentation of these disorders, although this may be overshadowed by central neurological features. This review is aimed at a general medical and neurologist readership and provides a clinical approach to the recognition, investigation, and treatment of mitochondrial myopathies. Emphasis is placed on practical management considerations while including some recent updates in the field.

Indexed as

BiopsyCytochrome-c Oxidase DeficiencyDeglutition DisordersDietary SupplementsEndocrine System DiseasesExercise TestExercise TherapyHearing DisordersHeart DiseasesHumansMitochondrial MyopathiesMuscle, SkeletalUbiquinoneVision DisordersVitaminscoenzyme Q10UbiquinoneVitamins

Identifiers

PMID21867371
PMCPMC3581062

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