MELAS: una serie de casos del Hospital Civil de Guadalajara «Fray Antonio Alcalde»

Introduction: MELAS (mitochondrial myopathy, encephalopathy, lactic acidosis and stroke-like events) is a clinical entity that takes part in the group of mitochondrial diseases, disorders characterized by mitochondrial DNA mutations that cause dysfunction in the respiratory transport chain and oxidative stress in multiple organs and systems, primarily the central nervous