Mitochondrial Disease Community Registry (MDCR)
The "privacy assured" registry helps collect information that will assist in diagnosing and treating mitochondrial disease.
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Mito101 Education
This tool provides information to help families and practitioners learn more about mitochondrial disease.
Transition to Adulthood with a Chronic Illness: Growing up
When you are a young adult with a chronic health condition, you have many extra responsibilities to manage. Decisions about drinking, dating and other aspects of adulthood are even more difficult.
Transition to Adulthood with a Chronic Illness: Health Insurance
No one likes to think about health insurance. But if you are a teenager with a chronic condition, you must think about health insurance and make sure you don't lose it.
Angel Flights
This nonprofit supports families to fly for treatment options not close to their home.
Ronald McDonald House Charities
This charity helps to support families with lodging while seeking care in the Philadelphia area. They have locations in Philadelphia, PA as well as Camden, NJ that offer transportation to CHOP.
Leigh Syndrome Registry
If you or a family member has been diagnosed anywhere in the world with Leigh Syndrome, please enroll in the patient registry to make an important contribution to Leigh Syndrome research.
Diagnosis and Management of Mitochondrial Disorders
"Written by the world’s foremost mitochondrial researchers, the book comprehensively presents the state-of-the-art in mitochondrial medicine, making it of interest to a wide variety of specialists, including neurologists, geneticists, internists and biologists."
MSeqDR: the Mitochondrial Disease Sequence Data Resource Consortium
The Mitochondrial Medicine team at CHOP provides this global resource to facilitate genomic and phenotype knowledge and data sharing and analysis across the global mitochondrial disease community.
Transplant Process at CHOP
Information on the transplant process at CHOP.