Abstract

A clinical case of mitochondrial neurogastrointestinal encephalopathy (MNGIE), a rare autosomal recessive multisystem disease caused by TYMP gene mutations and thymidine phosphorylase (TP) deficiency, is presented. Authors draw the specialists’ attention to the complexity of making a diagnosis and the importance of an interdisciplinary approach in the diagnosis and management of such patients with the purpose of increasing the pediatric practitioners’ MNGIE awareness thereby reducing the time to diagnosis, which in its turn improves the prognosis for the course of the disease for the patients.

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