Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Mitochondrial diabetes (DM) is a monogenic form of maternal transmission diabetes that is caused by mutations in the mitochondrial genome. These mutations affecting mitochondrial function may be the cause of initiation of the phenomenon of apoptosis itself having an aggravating role of the phenotype in patients with mitochondrial diabetes.Materials and Methods: This study involved 43 patients with mitochondrial diabetes (20 non-syndromic an...