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[Vascular Ehlers-Danlos syndrome: a clinical syndrome to be known by every anaesthesiologist and intensive care physician].
Annales francaises d'anesthesie et de reanimation - 1 Jan 2008
Fèvre M-C, Falcon D, Jouk P-S, Seinturier C, Jacquot C
Abstract excerpt
We report the case of a 29-year-old female who presented with a series of major vascular complications in rapid succession: haemothorax following rupture of a mammary artery aneurysm, pulmonary embolism, anterior myocardial infarction secondary to spontaneous dissection of the left anterior descending artery and rupture of a false aneurysm of the splenic artery. A diagnosis of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (vascular...
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