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The effects of acute and elective cardiac surgery on the anxiety traits of patients with Marfan syndrome

BMC Psychiatry, 2017
Background Marfan syndrome is a genetic disease, presenting with dysfunction of connective tissues leading to lesions in the cardiovascular and skeletal muscle system.
Kálmán Benke, Bence Ágg, Miklós Pólos, Alex Ali Sayour, Tamás Radovits, Elektra Bartha, Péter Nagy, Balázs Rákóczi, Ákos Koller, Viola Szokolai, Julianna Hedberg, Béla Merkely, Zsolt B. Nagy, Zoltán Szabolcs   +13 more
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Vitreolensectomy in Marfan's syndrome [PDF]

Eye, 1998
To evaluate the effectiveness of pars plana vitreolensectomy in the management of subluxed lenses associated with Marfan's syndrome and to assess the need for intraoperative retinal photocoagulation to prevent post-operative retinal detachment.A retrospective review was carried out of 40 eyes of patients with Marfan's syndrome who underwent pars plana ...
A D, Hubbard, D G, Charteris, R J, Cooling   +2 more
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A Practical Guide to Chromosome Microarray Interpretation for Paediatricians

Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Chromosome microarray (CMA) is a test commonly ordered by general paediatricians. It has diagnostic yield between 10%–15% in individuals with neurodevelopmental delay, autism and/or multiple congenital abnormalities. CMA identifies copy number variants (CNV) including deletions and duplications, which may be pathogenic, variants ...
Zachary E. McPherson, Margit Shah, Sarah Josephi‐Taylor, Brieana Dance, Benjamin Nash, Luke St Heaps, Dale Wright, Janette Hayward, Christopher Elliot, Joshua Steadson, Alan Ma   +10 more
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Carotid artery dissection linked to intermittent apnoeic swimming: A case–control study

Experimental Physiology, EarlyView.
Abstract Internal carotid artery (ICA) dissection is a rare and potentially devastating cause of cerebral ischaemia, initiated by an intimal tear or rupture of the vasa vasorum, that can lead to an intraluminal thrombus, vascular stenosis, occlusion, or dissecting aneurysm formation.
Damian M. Bailey, Richard G. Davies, Brenig L. Gwilym, Benjamin S. Stacey, Danny Walmsley, Michael H. Lewis, Josip Butkovic, Ivan Mumlek, Brad Perry, Zvonomir Vrselja, Shigehiko Ogoh, James A. Pawelczyk, Mohamad Bashir, Richard D. White, Ian M. Williams   +14 more
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Induction of macrophage chemotaxis by aortic extracts from patients with Marfan syndrome is related to elastin binding protein. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2011
Marfan syndrome is an autosomal dominantly inherited disorder of connective tissue with prominent skeletal, ocular, and cardiovascular manifestations. Aortic aneurysm and dissection are the major determinants of premature death in untreated patients.
Gao Guo, Petra Gehle, Sandra Doelken, José Luis Martin-Ventura, Yskert von Kodolitsch, Roland Hetzer, Peter N Robinson   +6 more
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Cancer Risk in Marfan Syndrome: A Swedish Population‐Based Cohort Study

International Journal of Cancer, Volume 159, Issue 7, Page 1707-1714, 1 October 2026.
The cancer risk in Marfan syndrome, an autosomal dominant connective tissue disorder, largely remains to be explored. In this population‐based matched cohort study of 1544 Swedish patients, the overall cancer risk in adults with Marfan syndrome showed no significant increase, except for the risk of endocrine tumours with a nearly threefold increase ...
Ida Nordgren, Anna Skarin Nordenvall, Alexandra Wachtmeister, Fulya Taylan, Yunxia Lu, Christina Norrby, Anna Lindstrand, Giedre Grigelioniene, Giorgio Tettamanti   +8 more
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Marfan Syndrome: A Case Report

Case Reports in Dentistry, 2012
Marfan syndrome is an autosomal dominant systemic disorder of the connective tissue. Children affected by the Marfan syndrome carry a mutation in one of their two copies of the gene that encodes the connective tissue protein fibrillin-1.
Rajendran Ganesh, Rajendran Vijayakumar, Haridoss Selvakumar   +2 more
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Pregnancy and Marfan syndrome [PDF]

Annals of Cardiothoracic Surgery, 2017
Pregnancy in women with Marfan syndrome (MFS) presents challenges to the clinician and the patient due to the increased incidence of maternal complications and involvement of the fetus, and deserves special consideration. The leading cause of morbidity and mortality in MFS is aortic dissection.
Sorel, Goland, Uri, Elkayam
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Co‐Occurring Non‐Cardiac Congenital Anomalies Among Cases With Congenital Heart Defects

American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A, Volume 200, Issue 9, Page 1953-1972, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Cases with congenital heart defects (CHD) often have other associated anomalies. The aim of this investigation was to assess the prevalence and the types of co‐occurring anomalies in CHD in a well‐defined population. The anomalies co‐occurring with CHD were ascertained in all live births, stillbirths and terminations of pregnancy for fetal ...
Claude Stoll, Yves Alembik, Marie‐Paule Roth   +2 more
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Short‐Term Complications Are Rare After Cholesteatoma Surgery

Clinical Otolaryngology, Volume 51, Issue 5, Page 660-665, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Objective To evaluate the incidence and nature of short‐term complications following cholesteatoma surgery in a heterogeneous cohort. Design A retrospective cohort study including complete coverage of cholesteatoma surgery in a Swedish region between 1 January 2005 and 31 December 2015.
Agnes Modée Borgström, Cecilia Engmér Berglin, Johan Knutsson, Åsa Bonnard   +3 more
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