Friedreich's Ataxia: Cardiac Evaluation of 25 Patients with Clinical Diagnosis and Literature Review

Friedreich's Ataxia: Cardiac Evaluation of 25 Patients with Clinical Diagnosis and Literature Review

OBJECTIVE - Cardiac evaluation (clinical, electrocardiographic and echocardiographic) of 25 Brazilian patients with clinical diagnosis of Friedreich's ataxia (FA) related to the frequency and the size of GAA repeats (unstable expansion of trinucleotide repeats that results in the disease). METH...

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Main Authors: Lilian Maria José Albano, Silvana Angelina Dório Nishioka, Regina Lucia Moysés, Jaqueline Wagenführ, Débora Bertola, Sofia Mizuho Miura Sugayama, A. Kim Chong
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Cardiologia (SBC) 2002-05-01
Series:Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia
Subjects:
Friedreich's ataxia
cardiac abnormalities
hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
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