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Therapeutic effect of sodium dichloroacetate on visual and auditory hallucinations in a patient with MELAS
1Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, University of Tokushima, Japan.
Neuropediatrics
|August 1, 1991
Abstract:
We report a patient with mitochondrial myopathy, encephalopathy, lactic acidosis, and strokelike episodes who experienced visual and auditory hallucinations. His blood and cerebrospinal fluid lactate levels were remarkably elevated. Sodium dichloroacetate was administered orally at doses of 12.5 to 100 mg/kg/day. On normalization of the lactate levels, the hallucinations disappeared.