Cardiac pathology in spinal muscular atrophy: a systematic review

Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Wijngaarde, C A ^a   Blank, A C ^b   Stam, M ^a   Wadman, R I ^a   Van Den Berg, L H ^a   Van Der Pol, W L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cardiac abnormalities; Cardiac pathology; Kugelberg Welander; SMA; Spinal muscular atrophy; Werdnig Hoffmann

Indexed keywords

SURVIVAL MOTOR NEURON PROTEIN 1; SURVIVAL MOTOR NEURON PROTEIN 2; SMN2 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART FUNCTION; HEART SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; POINT MUTATION; REVIEW; SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; HEART; HEREDITARY SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY; METABOLISM; MOTONEURON; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

HEART; HUMANS; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCULAR ATROPHY, SPINAL; SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHIES OF CHILDHOOD; SURVIVAL OF MOTOR NEURON 1 PROTEIN; SURVIVAL OF MOTOR NEURON 2 PROTEIN;

EID: 85018503273     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17501172     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13023-017-0613-5     Document Type: Review

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