Educational Case: Mitochondrial Myopathy

Calixto-Hope G Lucas; Marta Margeta

doi:10.1177/2374289519888732

Educational Case: Mitochondrial Myopathy

Acad Pathol. 2019 Nov 29:6:2374289519888732. doi: 10.1177/2374289519888732. eCollection 2019 Jan-Dec.

Authors

Calixto-Hope G Lucas¹, Marta Margeta¹

Affiliation

¹ Department of Pathology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.

Abstract

The following fictional case is intended as a learning tool within the Pathology Competencies for Medical Education (PCME), a set of national standards for teaching pathology. These are divided into three basic competencies: Disease Mechanisms and Processes, Organ System Pathology, and Diagnostic Medicine and Therapeutic Pathology. For additional information, and a full list of learning objectives for all three competencies, see http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2374289517715040.¹.

Keywords: mitochondrial disorders; mitochondrial inheritance; mitochondrial myopathy; nervous system—central; neuromuscular disorders; organ system pathology; pathology competencies.