Andrea L. Gropman

OVERVIEW: What every practitioner needs to know Are you sure your patient has a Mitochondrial disease? What are the typical findings for this disease? Multiorgan system involvement is the hallmark, although some mitochondrial disorders affect a single organ such as the eye in Leber hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON) (see below). Mitochondrial disorders are clinically heterogeneous.…