Wednesday, July 4, 2012

Cross-Sectional Analysis of Electrocardiograms in a Large Heterogeneous Cohort of Friedreich Ataxia Subjects.

Cross-Sectional Analysis of Electrocardiograms in a Large Heterogeneous Cohort of Friedreich Ataxia Subjects.Schadt KA, Friedman LS, Regner SR, Mark GE, Lynch DR, Lin KY.J Child Neurol 0883073812448461, first published on June 29, 2012 as doi:10.1177/0883073812448461

Keywords:  Electrocardiographic (ECG) findings, Friedreich ataxia, ECG abnormalities, age, sex, shorter guanine-adenine-adenine triplet repeat length, age of disease onset, functional disability, nonspecific ST-T wave changes (53%), right axis deviation (32%), left ventricular hypertrophy (19%), right ventricular hypertrophy (13%).