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CPEO disease

CPEO
CPEO disease CPEO is an acronym for chronic progressive external ophthalmoplegia and CPEO is also called progressive external ophthalmoplegia (PEO), is a inherited mitochondrial disorder
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What is POLG

POLG related disorders
POLG POLG also called POLG-related disorders is a group of mitochondrial genetic diseases caused by mutations in the polymerase gamma (pol γ) or PolG gene that have
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Kennedy’s syndrome

Kennedys-disease
Kennedy’s disease Kennedy's syndrome also known as Kennedy's disease, X-linked spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy, X-linked spinobulbar muscular atrophy or Spinal and Bulbar Muscular Atrophy (SBMA),
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Potter syndrome

Potter sequence facial features
Potter’s syndrome Potter's syndrome also known as Potter syndrome, Potter sequence or oligohydramnios sequence, is a rare congenital disorder caused by kidney problems and too
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Joubert syndrome

Joubert syndrome
Joubert syndrome Joubert syndrome, also called familial aplasia of the vermis, molar tooth midbrain-hindbrain malformation, agenesis of cerebellar vermis or cerebello-oculo-renal syndrome, is a rare autosomal
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Torsades de Pointes

Torsades de Dointes
Torsades de Pointes Torsades de Pointes (TdP), which mean "twisting of the point" in French, is a type of polymorphic ventricular tachycardia (fast heart rate originating
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Axenfeld-Rieger syndrome

Axenfeld-Rieger syndrome eye
Axenfeld-Rieger syndrome Axenfeld-Rieger syndrome (ARS), also called Rieger syndrome, Rieger's anomaly, Axenfeld and Rieger anomaly or iridogoniodysgenesis with somatic anomalies, is a rare genetic disorder that primarily
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Viral conjunctivitis

Viral conjunctivitis
Viral conjunctivitis Viral conjunctivitis is conjunctivitis caused by viruses and is very contagious. Virus is the most common cause of infectious conjunctivitis in the adult
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Bacterial conjunctivitis

Bacterial conjunctivitis
Bacterial conjunctivitis Bacterial conjunctivitis is conjunctivitis caused by bacteria and is very contagious. The most common bacteria are Staphylococcus species, Streptococcus pneumoniae, Haemophilus influenzae and
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Vernal conjunctivitis

Vernal keratoconjunctivitis
Vernal conjunctivitis Vernal conjunctivitis also called vernal keratoconjunctivitis is a severe type of seasonal allergic conjunctivitis that results in small, raised lumps on the inside of
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