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Vascular Ehlers-Danlos syndrome: pathophysiology, diagnosis, and prevention and treatment of its complications.
Cardiology in review - 1 Jan 2000
Beridze Natalia, Frishman William H
Abstract excerpt
The Ehlers-Danlos syndrome consists of a group of inherited connective tissue disorders caused by defects in the synthesis of collagen. The vascular type 4 form of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (VEDS) is associated with serious vascular complications in young adults, such as the spontaneous rupture of large-caliber and medium-caliber arteries, often without true aneurysm formation or dissection. VEDS is inherited as an...
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