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Echocardiographic characterization of cardiomyopathy in Friedreich's ataxia with tissue Doppler echocardiographically derived myocardial velocity gradients.
Circulation - 12 Sept 2000
Dutka D P, Donnelly J E, Palka P, Lange A, Nunez D J, Nihoyannopoulos P
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Conventional and tissue Doppler echocardiographically derived myocardial velocity gradients (MVGs) were used to characterize the myocardium in patients with Friedreich's ataxia (FRDA), and the relationship between MVGs and the mutation in the FRDA gene, a GAA triplet repeat expansion, was investigated. METHODS AND RESULTS: We studied 29 patients with FRDA (10 men, mean age 31+/-9 years) who were...
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