Acute refractory intestinal pseudo-obstruction in MELAS: Efficacy of prucalopride

In mitochondrial myopathy, encephalopathy, lactic acidosis, and stroke-like episodes (MELAS), a multisystem mitochondrial disorder, gastrointestinal involvement is frequent with dysphagia, chronic diarrhea, anorexia, abdominal pain, delayed gastric emptying, and paralytic, often intractable, ileus.1 In this article, we report a patient with chronic gastrointestinal dysmotility and acute refractory intestinal pseudo-obstruction responsive to prucalopride.

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