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Start free with EleplanCombined oxidative phosphorylation defect type 23
ORPHA:444013Disease
Also called COXPD23
What it is
A rare mitochondrial disease characterized by early onset of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and variable neurologic symptoms including global developmental delay, hypotonia, intellectual disability, visual impairment, and seizures. Lactic acidosis is present in all patients. Muscle biopsy usually shows decreased activity of mitochondrial complexes I and IV. Brain imaging may reveal variable abnormal signal intensities in the thalamus, basal ganglia, and/or brain stem.
Key facts
- Prevalence
- <1 / 1 000 000
- Age of onset
- Childhood, Infancy, Neonatal
- Inheritance
- Autosomal recessive
- Classified as
- Disease
Prevalence figures describe populations, not individuals, and are often estimates from a single study. Where the figure is an incidence or a birth prevalence, it says so.
Signs and symptoms
Sometimes5–29%
23- Abnormal basal ganglia MRI signal intensity
- Abnormal brainstem MRI signal intensity
- Abnormal thalamic MRI signal intensity
- Cognitive impairment
- Congestive heart failure
- Cyanosis
- Decreased activity of mitochondrial complex I
- Decreased activity of mitochondrial complex IV
and 15 more in this range
These ranges are how often a sign appears across everyone diagnosed, not a prediction for one person — most people have some of these and not others. Orphanet also records findings that are specifically absent in this disease; those are in the data but not listed here.
Gene
ICD-10 codes
ICD-10 has no distinct code for most rare diseases, so many are filed under the nearest available one. A shared code identifies the group, not this disease — the ORPHAcode above is what identifies it.
Related health topics
Reached through the ICD-10 categories this disease is filed under, so these describe the broader group rather than this disease specifically.
Cross-references
Orphadata Science: Free access data from Orphanet. © INSERM 1999. Data version 2026-06-23. Available under CC BY 4.0. This is a reference, not medical advice.
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