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Friedreich's ataxia: cardiac evaluation of 25 patients with clinical diagnosis and literature review.
Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia - 1 May 2002
Albano Lilian Maria José, Nishioka Silvana Angelina Dório, Moysés Regina Lucia, Wagenführ Jaqueline, Bertola Débora, Sugayama Sofia Mizuho Miura, Chong A Kim
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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). METHODS: Clinical and cardiac study including electrocardiogram and echocardiogram of all patients and molecular analysis to...
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