Thursday, January 12, 2017

New hearts for Friedreich patients

David Pleasure, Journal of the Neurological Sciences, Available online 12 January 2017, ISSN 0022-510X, doi:10.1016/j.jns.2017.01.035.
Editorial

The impact of the transplanted hearts on quality of life was large. The transplanted hearts showed no signs of cardiomyopathy during decades-long post-transplantation followup, providing strong evidence that FRDA cardiomyopathy develops independently of other manifestations of this systemic disease.