R ecognizing and dis- tinguishing potentially life-threatening Marfan syndrome (MFS) and Loeys-Dietz syndrome (LDS) is often difficult, but 3 new papers may ease the process and steer patients to appropriate treatment. MFS is caused by a mutation in the gene that expresses the protein fibrillin-1,
Expanding the skeletal phenotype of Loeys-Dietz syndrome
✍ Scribed by Sérgio B. Sousa; Karen Lambot-Juhan; Marlène Rio; Geneviève Baujat; Vicken Topouchian; Nadine Hanna; Martine Le Merrer; Francis Brunelle; Arnold Munnich; Catherine Boileau; Valérie Cormier-Daire
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 193 KB
- Volume
- 155
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1552-4825
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