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 [Recherche financée par l’ACAF] Abstract Objective-A group of 27 patients with Friedreich’s ataxia and another group of 30 patients with olivopontocerebellar atrophies were each randomly divided...

Linkage Studies of Friedreich Ataxia by Means of Blood-Group and Protein Markers (1987), B. J. B. Keats, L. J. Ward, M. Lu, S. Krieger, M. A. Wilensky, C. J. Foster-Gibson, M. Roy, M. Monté, A. Barbeau, N. E. Simpson, H. Eiberg, P. Tippett, R. Williamson, S. Chamberlain SUMMARY Friedreich ataxia...

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...