All right, welcome. My name is Devine. This is episode 456 of the Devine Intervention

Podcasts. In today's podcast we're going to be continuing the rapid review series for the

USMLE.

Step 2 seek and Step 3 exams,

there's going to be series 95.

So what if they give you a question about a patient

and they tell you a question about a patient and they tell you that this patient she has a history of

muscle weakness and that many of her kids have the exact same problem. In fact all of her kids have the

exact same problem. If you see that I would really hope you're thinking about some kind of

mitochondrial disorder.

I remember our friends at the USMLE exams,

they like to test mitochondrial disorders

and sometimes they can even show you a family tree.

They can show you like an inheritance diagram where you basically see like

okay dad, mom, their kids and all those things.

Remember my uncontrolled disorders they will only be passed on from

from moms to all her kids. If you see any transmission from dad, it cannot be a mitochondrial disorder by definition because

mitochondrial disorders are all inherited from mom.

All the mitochondria in a human body is inherited from mom.

And one thing that's pretty important to know is that many times

those people are gonna have muscle problems.

They can have muscle problems.

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