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Leigh's disease
(redirected from Leigh syndrome)

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Leigh's disease
Subacute necrotizing encephalopathy A mitochondrial disease of infants Clinical Progressive loss of motor and verbal skills Prognosis Usually fatal by age 2. See Mitochondrial disease.
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com/elliotts-star/ Elliott's illness: The lowdown LEIGH'S disease, a form of Leigh syndrome, also known as Subacute Necrotizing Encephalomyelopathy (SNEM), is a rare disorder that affects the central nervous system.
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9) When evaluating patients with cerebral infarcts not consistent with vascular distribution, our differential should include other causes of strokes including MELAS, MERRF (mitochondrial encephalopathy ragged red fiber syndrome), Leigh syndrome, and other mitochondrial inborn error syndromes.
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She and Spiros, who live in Worcester, did not understand how serious Leigh Syndrome was when they were first given the diagnosis.
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