New clinical care guidelines issued for patients with mitochondrial disease

(Children's Hospital of Philadelphia) Physicians who see patients with mitochondrial disease now have a practical new tool -- a set of guidelines for managing and caring for those patients. Occurring in at least one in 4,500 individuals, mitochondrial disease is caused by defects in genes affecting the function of mitochondria, crucial energy-producing structures found in every cell.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news