Myopia in the Diagnosis of Marfan Syndrome: An Important Early Sign of a Systemic Condition

Marfan syndrome is a genetic connective tissue disorder that is a frequent cause of aortic dissection in younger patients. We report a case of a patient with a history of ectopia lentis in his third decade and abdominal striae since adolescence, who presented with Stanford type A dissection at age 4...

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Autores principales: Prajapati, Bhavini B, Monti, Jennifer
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Cardiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9053542/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35505728
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.23651
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spelling pubmed-90535422022-05-02 Myopia in the Diagnosis of Marfan Syndrome: An Important Early Sign of a Systemic Condition Prajapati, Bhavini B Monti, Jennifer Cureus Cardiology Marfan syndrome is a genetic connective tissue disorder that is a frequent cause of aortic dissection in younger patients. We report a case of a patient with a history of ectopia lentis in his third decade and abdominal striae since adolescence, who presented with Stanford type A dissection at age 48. Cureus 2022-03-30 /pmc/articles/PMC9053542/ /pubmed/35505728 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.23651 Text en Copyright © 2022, Prajapati et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Myopia in the Diagnosis of Marfan Syndrome: An Important Early Sign of a Systemic Condition
title Myopia in the Diagnosis of Marfan Syndrome: An Important Early Sign of a Systemic Condition
title_full Myopia in the Diagnosis of Marfan Syndrome: An Important Early Sign of a Systemic Condition
title_fullStr Myopia in the Diagnosis of Marfan Syndrome: An Important Early Sign of a Systemic Condition
title_full_unstemmed Myopia in the Diagnosis of Marfan Syndrome: An Important Early Sign of a Systemic Condition
title_short Myopia in the Diagnosis of Marfan Syndrome: An Important Early Sign of a Systemic Condition
title_sort myopia in the diagnosis of marfan syndrome: an important early sign of a systemic condition
topic Cardiology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9053542/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.23651
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