{"title":"Severe Ischemic Colitis in A Patient with Melas Syndrome","authors":"E. Lázaro","doi":"10.33552/AJGH.2020.02.000540","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"MELAS syndrome is a genetic mitochondrial myopathy affecting less than 0.05% of people, which occurs with encephalomyopathy, lactic acidosis and cerebral ischemia [1]. Although it has a variable phenotypic expression, the predominant digestive manifestations [2,3] are constipation and pseudo-obstruction which are infrequent and occasionally serious. We present a patient with MELAS syndrome and the digestive disorder chronic ischemic colitis following intestinal obstruction due to fecaloma.","PeriodicalId":72038,"journal":{"name":"Academic journal of gastroenterology & hepatology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2020-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Academic journal of gastroenterology & hepatology","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.33552/AJGH.2020.02.000540","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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MELAS syndrome is a genetic mitochondrial myopathy affecting less than 0.05% of people, which occurs with encephalomyopathy, lactic acidosis and cerebral ischemia [1]. Although it has a variable phenotypic expression, the predominant digestive manifestations [2,3] are constipation and pseudo-obstruction which are infrequent and occasionally serious. We present a patient with MELAS syndrome and the digestive disorder chronic ischemic colitis following intestinal obstruction due to fecaloma.