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Congestive heart failure and cardiac thrombus as first presentations of Friedreich ataxia
1Department of Pediatrics, Ohio State University, Children's Hospital, Columbus 43205.
Pediatric Neurology
|July 1, 1992
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.