Clinical Presentation
Transcript
Mitochondrial diseases have a neuromuscular component, quite frequently, because, the central nervous system, and muscles, require a lot of energy, and the mitochondria are all about providing energy to fuel the cellular processes. So if you have a mitochondrial disease, your energy production is impaired, and those organs that rely most heavily on that, are going to be affected most or maybe noticed, first. Those are going to be the brain, and the heart, and the muscles.