Mitochondrial Disorders and Treatment

Abstract

Mitochondrial disease are a multisystemic disease a characterized by a wide range of biochemical and genetic mitochondrial defects with a variable mode of inheritance, phenotypes and symptoms. Asymtomatic or mildly affected individuals often are misdiagnosed and the onset of significant symptoms may not occur until adulthood. Patients with mitochondrial disease often are diagnosed with cerebral palsy, epilepsy, learning disabilities, autism, neuromuscular disease, and other common neurological disease.