looking over my biopsy results-------any ideas here?

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I have a question to ask of all the " experts " here on the list.

and I have spoken frequesntly about having Mtdna defects and being

deficient in Complexes II-III. We have both been told that this is

very unusual because Complex II is entirely nuclear. Complex III has

only 1 unit that is MTdna related. Both Dr Cohen, my doc, and

Dr. Navuix, her doc, have said this is quite unusual. My son

who is now 6 and was biopsied first at CCF when he was 11 months.His

biopsy was the first in our family to show this defect. My biopsy

showed deficiencies as well and " RARE FOCI OF MILD CHRONIC

INFLAMMATION " . Do any of you know exactly what this means. Dr Cohen

explains " that the pathology is not entirely normal " but doesn't say

much more about what could be going on. Given my lactic acidosis in

my CSF, family history and clinical and labratory data, he is going

ahead with the Mito Diagnosis. He says he doesn't know what to make

of the inflammation but he has seen this in previous Mito patients.

Any ideas or comments for me? Have any of you had a similar biopsy

report?

Hugs,