Article
[Clinical signs of Marfan syndrome in children under 10 years of age].
Archives de pediatrie : organe officiel de la Societe francaise de pediatrie - 1 Nov 2013
Laffargue F, Lienhardt-Roussie A, Lacombe D, Delrue M-A
Abstract excerpt
Diagnosing Marfan syndrome in young children is difficult because of the great variability of expression of the disease and because the phenotype evolves over the life course. The goal of this retrospective study was to describe the first clinical symptoms in children under 10 years of age with Marfan syndrome and to evaluate the pertinence of the new 2010 Ghent criteria in comparison with the 1996 criteria....
Topics
- Aortic Aneurysm
- Arachnodactyly
- Child
- Child, Preschool
- Ectopia Lentis
- Facies
- Female
- Fibrillin-1
- Fibrillins
- Flatfoot
- Funnel Chest
- Humans
- Infant
- Joint Instability
- Male
- Marfan Syndrome
- Microfilament Proteins
- Mutation
