The pathogenesis of cardiomyopathy in Friedreich ataxia.

Friedreich ataxia (FA) is an autosomal recessive disease with a complex neurological phenotype, but the most common cause of death is heart failure. This study presents a systematic analysis of 15 fixed and 13 frozen archival autopsy tissues of FA hearts and 10 normal controls (8 frozen) by measurem...

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Main Authors: Arnulf H Koeppen, R Liane Ramirez, Alyssa B Becker, Sarah T Bjork, Sonia Levi, Paolo Santambrogio, Patrick J Parsons, Pamela C Kruger, Karl X Yang, Paul J Feustel, Joseph E Mazurkiewicz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4349588?pdf=render