CME

Interested in learning more on your own and/or obtaining Continuing Medical Education credits?

Check out the courses at Mito University (Mito U) - a joint endeavor of the MMS and UMDF.

The Basics

1. Red Flag Symptoms

2. Associated Symptoms

3. Neuroimaging (article)

Testing (links to articles open in a new window)

For up-to-date testing recommendations, please see the MMS Diagnosis Guidelines paper in Genetics in Medicine

MMS Papers (links to journal articles open in a new window)

1. Practical Approach for the PCP - Pediatrics

2. Diagnosis and Treatment of Mitochondrial Disease - MMS Consensus Criteria – Genetics in Medicine

3. Preventative Care Guidelines for Primary Mitochondrial Disease - Genetics in Medicine

4. Management of Stroke in MELAS - JAMA Neurology

5. The reasons to avoid a diagnosis of “Possible” Mitochondrial Disease - Journal of Medical Genetics

6. Outcomes after solid organ transplantation in Primary Mitochondrial Disease - Molecular Genetics & Metabolism

7. On the creation of the US Mitochondrial Care Network - in Molecular Genetics & Metabolism

8. On the safety of medications used in treating Mitochondrial Disease Patients - in the Journal of Inherited Metabolic Disease

9. Practice Patterns of Mitochondrial Medicine Physicians in North America – Part 1 – diagnostic and clinical care challenges - Mitochondrion

10. Practice Patterns of Mitochondrial Medicine Physicians in North America – Part 2 – treatment and management concerns - Mitochondrion

    Older Publications (please  use the section above for up-to-date recommendations)

1. The In-Depth Evaluation including how to interpret metabolic studies, tissue testing, what to send on the muscle biopsy and how to begin a genetic evaluation

2. A modern approach to the treatment of mitochondrial disease

3. Illness management table referenced in treatment article

Parent/Patient/Physician Education and Handouts (links to pdf’s open in a new window)

1. Mito University - free CME and physician and family specific educational content

2. Mitoland: A Handbook for Patients and Parents

3. Mitochondrial Myths for Physicians

4. Mitochondrial Myths for Patients & Families