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Prognosis

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There is no known effective treatment for Friedreich's ataxia and patients become chairbound, on average 15 years after the onset of symptoms. Death usually occurs in the fourth or fifth decades from cardiac - cardiomyopathy - or pulmonary - kyphoscoliosis - complications.

Very rarely, the disease arrests without further progression.

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