At 23, Chloe Melas was embracing life in Manhattan and enjoying everything it had to offer. One day, she noticed bright red blood in her stool. While she felt worried, she thought little of it. “I can ...

This study involved three members (affecteds: proband and his mother, unaffected: his father) from a family with MELAS and cataract phenotypes (familial ID: MT48, Figure 1A). A group of 205 non-MELAS ...

MELAS (mitochondrial encephalomyopathy, lactic acidosis, and stroke-like episodes) syndrome is a maternally inherited mitochondrial disease with a broad spectrum of manifestations. In addition to ...

lia, 15, (not her real name) was rushed to the Hospital Kuala Lumpur (HKL)’s emergency unit after developing stroke-like episodes with sudden muscle weakness on the right side of the body. A computed ...

Mitochondrial encephalomyopathy, lactic acidosis, and stroke-like episodes (MELAS) (OMIM 540000) is one of the most common maternally inherited mitochondrial disorders. Its clinical manifestations ...

Mitochondrial encephalomyopathy, lactic acidosis, and stroke-like episodes (MELAS) is a severe multisystemic disease, although some have a milder phenotype. We aimed to evaluate the clinical spectrum ...

This study reported a case of MELAS syndrome presenting as the initial imaging characteristics of Fahr’s syndrome with “near” sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP) and lateralized periodic ...

MELAS (mitochondrial encephalomyopathy, lactic acidosis and stroke-like episodes) is the most common clinical entity caused by a mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) mutation. It was first described in 1984 by ...

CNN's Chloe Melas spoke to PEOPLE exclusively about conceiving both her first and second sons via in vitro fertilization Chloe Melas is adding another baby boy to her brood! The CNN reporter and ...