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Neonatal Marfan syndrome: unusually large deletion of exons 24-26 of FBN1 associated with poor prognosis.
Klinische Padiatrie - 1 Jul 2010
Apitz C, Mackensen-Haen S, Girisch M, Kerst G, Wiegand G, Stuhrmann M, Niethammer K, Behrwind G, Hofbeck M
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Neonatal Marfan syndrome is a very rare subset of the classical Marfan syndrome with pronounced phenotypic expression especially of the cardiovascular manifestations. It is associated with a very poor prognosis, with approximately 50% of affected infants dying from cardiac failure during the first year of life. We present a newborn with the classical phenotype of neonatal Marfan syndrome. Within few hours after...
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