During a routine test, Johnny's middle school nurse discovered his severe scoliosis, a prevalent symptom of Marfan. This unexpectedly set his family on a path to uncover his underlying diagnosis at ...

Connective tissue disorders such as Marfan’s syndrome, Turner’s syndrome, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome and bicuspid aortic valve have a significantly increased risk of aortic dissection. The onset ...

Remarkably, however, comparative data on the actual risk of dissection in Marfan's syndrome at a given aortic diameter are lacking. Accordingly, when Kim and colleagues attempted to construct a ...

At this time, recruitment for extended follow-up is complete. Manifestations of the Marfan syndrome appear in many parts of the body, especially in the bones and ligaments (the skeletal system), the ...

Connective tissue disorders such as Marfan’s syndrome have a significantly increased risk of aortic dissection. The onset of symptoms in aortic dissection are usually sudden without warning.

The interesting coincidence of the publication of two similar case reports of Marfan's syndrome in this issue ... and their covert aortic disease was not revealed until they were involved in ...

This paper reports the sequence of events in a patient with Marfan's syndrome who evidently acquired aortic insufficiency secondary to chest trauma and in whom a Hufnagel valve was inserted.

This is an emergency, Conner said. About 50% of people who have an aortic dissection die at home. Of the other 50% who make ...

have a parent, sibling, or child who has a thoracic aortic aneurysm or who has experienced a rupture of an aneurysm or an ...

and postoperative care of patients with aortic aneurysms and dissection, including those resulting from genetic connective tissue disorders, such as Marfan syndrome and Loeys-Dietz syndrome, as well ...