Rare digestive disease: Mitochondrial neurogastrointestinal encephalomyopathy, review of the literature

J Dig Dis. 2024 Dec 18. doi: 10.1111/1751-2980.13317. Online ahead of print.

Abstract

The median age of patients at diagnosis of mitochondrial neurogastrointestinal encephalomyopathy was 25 years. The most common neurological symptoms were leukoencephalopathy (83.1%), polyneuropathy (68.5%), and ptosis/ophthalmoparesis (61.8%). And the most common digestive symptoms were weight loss/cachexia (71.9%), abdominal pain (58.4%), diarrhea (57.3%), vomiting (53.9%), and constipation (13.5%).

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