Guest guest Posted March 1, 2000 Report Share Posted March 1, 2000 Hi all. Just a question out of curiosity... I know that Pearson's syndrome is classified as a mitochondrial cytopaty. Can someone explain to me what the difference is between a cytopaty, myopathy, or encephalopathy is? Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 1, 2000 Report Share Posted March 1, 2000 - Cytopathy-a disease of the cell (mito dysfunction), myopathy-abnormal conditions/disease of the muscle cells, encephalopathy- any disease of the brain. The umdf has an excellent glossary of terms. I hoped this has helped. Michele Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 2, 2000 Report Share Posted March 2, 2000 Thanks and Michele! So by definition, does this mean that one can have mito cytopathy and myopathy at the same time then?? michsull@... wrote: > From: michsull@... > > - > > Cytopathy-a disease of the cell (mito dysfunction), myopathy-abnormal > > conditions/disease of the muscle cells, encephalopathy- any disease of > the > brain. > > The umdf has an excellent glossary of terms. I hoped this has helped. > > Michele > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > Brought to you by www.imdn.org - an on-line support group for those > affected by mitochondrial disease. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 2, 2000 Report Share Posted March 2, 2000 , Yes. By definition everybody with a mitochondrial myopathy or encephalopathy or encephalomyopathy, has a mitochondrial cytopathy. Mitochondrial cytopathy is just more general. Some doctors prefer to be more specific - saying encephalomyopathy or myopathy and some just use cytopathy in all cases. The only thing I would mention is to try to get some doctor to add the word myopathy so that you qualify for services from the MDA as I'm not sure mitochondrial cytopathy would be sufficient for them since they specifically support mitochondrial myopathies (encephalomyopathy is fine as well). Terri > >Reply-To: Mitoonelist >To: Mitoonelist >Subject: Re: help with the -opathies! >Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 22:55:12 -0800 > >Thanks and Michele! >So by definition, does this mean that one can have mito cytopathy and >myopathy at the same time then?? > > > > >michsull@... wrote: > > > From: michsull@... > > > > - > > > > Cytopathy-a disease of the cell (mito dysfunction), myopathy-abnormal > > > > conditions/disease of the muscle cells, encephalopathy- any disease of > > the > > brain. > > > > The umdf has an excellent glossary of terms. I hoped this has helped. > > > > Michele > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Brought to you by www.imdn.org - an on-line support group for those > > affected by mitochondrial disease. > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 2, 2000 Report Share Posted March 2, 2000 - I think so....Michele Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 3, 2000 Report Share Posted March 3, 2000 Thanks, Terri. Great minds think alike...lol. As we were looking into more help for , I noticed that the MDA listed myopathies, but not cytopathies. I don't think that we will have a problem getting listed with myopathy, though, since the recent addition of KSS to his " resume " . lol Terri Mason wrote: > > > , > > Yes. By definition everybody with a mitochondrial myopathy or > encephalopathy or encephalomyopathy, has a mitochondrial cytopathy. > Mitochondrial cytopathy is just more general. Some doctors prefer to > be > more specific - saying encephalomyopathy or myopathy and some just use > > cytopathy in all cases. The only thing I would mention is to try to > get > some doctor to add the word myopathy so that you qualify for services > from > the MDA as I'm not sure mitochondrial cytopathy would be sufficient > for them > since they specifically support mitochondrial myopathies > (encephalomyopathy > is fine as well). > > Terri > > > > > >Reply-To: Mitoonelist > >To: Mitoonelist > >Subject: Re: help with the -opathies! > >Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 22:55:12 -0800 > > > >Thanks and Michele! > >So by definition, does this mean that one can have mito cytopathy and > > >myopathy at the same time then?? > > > > > > > > > >michsull@... wrote: > > > > > From: michsull@... > > > > > > - > > > > > > Cytopathy-a disease of the cell (mito dysfunction), > myopathy-abnormal > > > > > > conditions/disease of the muscle cells, encephalopathy- any > disease of > > > the > > > brain. > > > > > > The umdf has an excellent glossary of terms. I hoped this has > helped. > > > > > > Michele > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Brought to you by www.imdn.org - an on-line support group for > those > > > affected by mitochondrial disease. > > > > ______________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > Brought to you by www.imdn.org - an on-line support group for those > affected by mitochondrial disease. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 4, 2000 Report Share Posted March 4, 2000 In a message dated 3/1/00 10:28:48 PM Pacific Standard Time, whyten@... writes: << So by definition, does this mean that one can have mito cytopathy and myopathy at the same time then?? >> orion had both... julia orion's mommy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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