Medicine & USMLE

Marfan Syndrome

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Autosomal Dominant Diseases
  1. Marfan Syndrome
  2. Li-Fraumeni Syndrome (LFS)
  3. Achondroplasia
  4. Job (Hyper IgE) Syndrome
  5. HHT
  6. Hereditary Spherocytosis
  7. von Hippel-Lindau (VHL)
  8. MEN 1
  9. MEN 2
  10. Von Recklinghausen Disease (NF I)
  11. Neurofibromatosis Type II (NF II)
  12. Myotonic Dystrophy
  13. ADPKD

Marfan Syndrome is an inherited connective tissue disorder that affects a person's heart, blood vessels, and skeleton.

It is caused by a mutation in fibrillin-1, which is located on chromosome 15. Marfan syndrome has a number of characteristic clinical findings, such as marfanoid habitus (tall and thin statue), upward and outward lens displacement (ectopia lentis), mitral valve prolapse, and aortic dissection.

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