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Case Reports
. 1992 Jul-Aug;8(4):313-4.
doi: 10.1016/0887-8994(92)90374-8.

Congestive heart failure and cardiac thrombus as first presentations of Friedreich ataxia

C Y Tsao  1 , W D Lo, J Craenen
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Congestive heart failure and cardiac thrombus as first presentations of Friedreich ataxia

C Y Tsao et al. Pediatr Neurol. 1992 Jul-Aug.

Abstract

The majority of patients with Friedreich ataxia present with gait ataxia. Congestive heart failure usually is a terminal event. We report a 9-year-old boy who developed congestive heart failure and thrombus formation in the left ventricle at age 5 years and then progressive ataxia as well as other features of Friedreich ataxia; therefore, congestive heart failure and thrombus formation may rarely be the initial findings in Friedreich ataxia.

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