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The second wind phenomenon in very young McArdle's patients

Margarita Pérez et al. Neuromuscul Disord. 2009 Jun.

Abstract

We investigated the phenomenon of second wind in four patients with McArdle's disease: a brother and sister (aged 4 and 12 years respectively) and two unrelated patients, a boy of 14 and a 17-year-old girl. We also studied the siblings' healthy 6-year-old sister. Each patient performed a 15-min exercise test at a constant workload and a subsequent graded exercise test until exhaustion. Overall the healthy girl and the youngest McArdle's patient, the 4-year-old boy, did not show a second wind phenomenon. Further, the peak cardio-respiratory capacity of the young McArdle's boy was normal for his age (32.3 mL 02/kg/min) and he did not report any function limitations during physical education classes.

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