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Friedreich Ataxia

 Subject

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Subject Source: Medical Subject Headings
Scope Note: Notes = An autosomal recessive disease, usually of childhood onset, characterized pathologically by degeneration of the spinocerebellar tracts, posterior columns, and to a lesser extent the corticospinal tracts. ,Created For = LHSA-Dott

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

PR2.1815, 1943-1956

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.1815
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, charts and correspondence relating to male patient from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 13 at first examination in 1943. Conditions mentioned include: Friedreich's spinal ataxia; tremor; and hypotonia. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1943-1956
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive: Case Notes / Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh Folder-based Case Notes / RIE, Professor Norman Dott, Neurology, Ward 20 (part 1)

PR2.2048, 1943

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.2048
Scope and Contents

Notes, chart and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 13 at first examination in 1943. Conditions mentioned include: muscle weakness; ataxia; and Friedreich's ataxia. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1943
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive: Case Notes / Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh Folder-based Case Notes / RIE, Professor Norman Dott, Neurology, Ward 20 (part 1)

PR2.8784, 1950

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.8784
Scope and Contents

Correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 46 at first examination in 1950. Conditions mentioned include: Friedrich's ataxis; and hysteria. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1950
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive: Case Notes / Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh Folder-based Case Notes / RIE, Professor Norman Dott, Neurology, Ward 20 (part 2)

PR2.13692, 1954

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.13692
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, notes, charts, reports and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 9 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: ataxia; hereditary deformity of feet; hereditary hypertrophic neuritis; Friedrich syndrome; and unstable gait. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1954
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive: Case Notes / Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh Folder-based Case Notes / RIE, Professor Norman Dott, Neurology, Ward 20 (part 3)

PR2.20432, 1959

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.20432
Scope and Contents

Notes, charts and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 20 at first examination in 1959. Conditions mentioned include: Friedrich's ataxia. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1959
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive: Case Notes / Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh Folder-based Case Notes / RIE, Professor Norman Dott, Neurology, Ward 20 (part 4)