Research
31 May 2017
Is there a link between mitochondrial disease and epilepsy? A recent study investigating the link between mitochondrial diseases and epilepsy found that one in five adult mitochondrial disease patients experience seizures.
The study identified that the prevalence of epilepsy in both children and adults with mitochondrial disease appeared to be linked to the underlying genetic mutation, with some mutations like m.8344A>G showing epilepsy in 92.3% of cases and other mutations like single large-scale mtDNA deletions only showing epilepsy in 3% of cases.
For more information, take a look at the full article. epilepsy_in_adults_with_mitochondrial_disease_research_paper.pdf.
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