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Vascular type of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome.
Journal of Nippon Medical School = Nippon Ika Daigaku zasshi - 1 Oct 2008
Watanabe Atsushi, Shimada Takashi
Abstract excerpt
Vascular type of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS), also known as EDS type IV (NIM#130050) is a life-threatening autosomal dominant inherited disorder of connective tissue, caused by mutations of the COL3A1 gene. Vascular EDS causes severe fragility of connective tissues with arterial and intestinal ruptures and complications of surgical and radiological treatment, and is of particular importance to medical...
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