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Coexistent Marfan's syndrome and ankylosing spondylitis.
The Journal of rheumatology - 1 Jun 2006
Kiss Csaba, Jónap Ildiko, Gergely Peter, Poór Gyula
Abstract excerpt
We describe a 22-year-old woman with coexisting Marfan's syndrome (MFS) and ankylosing spondylitis (AS). A change of fibrillin-1 due to mutation of the FBN1 gene (MFS) or a cell-mediated autoimmune response in AS could account for a common pathology.
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