Amantadine hydrochloride treatment in heredodegenerative ataxias (1996) [Funded by CAFA]

Amantadine hydrochloride treatment in heredodegenerative ataxias: a double blind study (1996), M. I. Botez, Therese Botez-Marquard, Robert Elie, Olga-Lucia Pedraza, Kristine Goyette, Robert Lalonde Abstract Objective-A group of 27 patients with Friedreich’s ataxia and another group of 30 patients with olivopontocerebellar atrophies were each randomly divided into two subgroups, one...

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Natural history of scoliosis in Friedreich’s ataxia (1986) [Funded by CAFA]

Abstract Does scoliosis associated with Friedreich’s ataxia behave like an idiopathic or a typical neuromuscular scoliosis? Should it be treated like an idiopathic or a neuromuscular curve? Since no precise information to answer these questions could be found in the orthopaedic literature, a retrospective study was undertaken of seventy-eight patients...

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