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View Post: Ehlers danlos syndrome - surchur
1 Dec 2009
Ehlers Danlos Syndrome, Also called: Cutis elastica, EDS Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS) is a group of inherited disorders that weaken connective tissues. Connective tissues are proteins that support skin, bones, blood vessels and other ... [ view original]. Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome or ..... Ehlers-Danlos syndrome is another disease which has easy bruising as a symptom and is primarily a connective tissue disorder. Ehlers-Danlos syndrom..Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:18:34; more ...
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View Post: eScholarship: Tenascin-X, Collagen, Elastin and the Ehlers-Danlos ...
22 Aug 2006 by James Bristow  
His career has centered on understanding basic mechanisms of a variety of skin diseases and he developed essential methodology for studying the role of tenascin-X in Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. Correspondence to: James Bristow, ... Introduction Tenascin-X is one member of a family of extracellular matrix glycoproteins that share a common general structure, but are distinguished by their patterns of expression in development and disease [1]. There are 4 mammalian tenascins, ...
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View Post: Hello. My name is Sarah, and I have Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome ...
29 May 2009 by admin  
I was diagnosed with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome in 2005, a year after I became symptomatic. It is common for EDS-sufferers to become symptomatic in their late 20s, as I did, and to have a hard time getting a diagnosis due to a general lack of .... I firmly believe that increasing awareness is the most difficult and most productive fight against chronic disease. (as a side note: next month I am getting married to another librarian and thanks to support from my family and from ...
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View Post: Prayers to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar & an Ethical
10 Nov 2009 by Valerie Reiss  
As Sufferer of Ehler's Danlos Syndrome, in which every [ubiqutious (sp may be off)] collegen molecule (a protein) is defective making my joints, blood vessels, and teeth, skin, eyes everything with collegen. ... You the patient have the imperative to know things about your disease because you, ultimately are in charge of your health. Thanks for reading this atrociously written grammar and spelling. I have some deficeits from being on a ventillator for 30 days from the ...
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View Post: An Artist's Musings: How flexible are you?
27 Aug 2009 by Nkolika  
Some of the more prominent symptoms of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome include flexible joints that extend beyond the normal range of movement, and skin that's especially stretchy or fragile. ... Arterial/intestinal/uterine fragility or rupture ( usually associated with the Vascular Type); Scoliosis at birth and scleral fragility (associated with the Kyphoscoliosis Type); Poor muscle tone (associated with the Arthrochalasia Type); Mitral valve prolapse; Gum disease. Hernias ...
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View Post: Autoimmune Diseases
5 Mar 2007
Behcet's. Behcet's disease is an autoimmune disease that causes mouth sores, genital sores, inflammation inside of the eye, skin problems, and arthritis. ISN. ... Ehlers-Danlos syndromes and Marfan syndrome. Ehlers-Danlos syndromes (EDS) and Marfan syndrome (MFS) are multisystemic disorders that primarily affect the soft connective tissues. (ScienceDirect) Best Practice & Research Clinical Rheumatology Vol 22, Issue 1, March 2008, Pp 165-189. (Also see: MFS) ...
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View Post: Arthritis Symptoms and Treatment
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View Post: Flexibility and arterial stiffness - MuscleMecca.com Forums
23 Oct 2009 by Ironslave  
Because arterial stiffness often precedes cardiovascular disease, the results suggest that this simple test could become a quick measure of an individual's risk for early mortality from heart attack or stroke. .... Ehlers-Danlos syndrome is a rare connective tissue disorder inherited as an autosomal-dominant trait. As a result, the patients are pathologically hyperflexible. A previous study showed abnormally low values of aortic PWV in the ecchymotic Ehlers-Danlos ...
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View Post: New understandings in the genetics of congenital heart disease
1 Oct 1996 by Benson, D Woodrow; Basson, Craig T.; MacRae,...  
valve, aorta, skin and skeletal) phenotype have also been linked to the fibrillin-1 locus. Contractural arachnodactyly is phenotypically similar to. Marfan syndrome and results from mutations in another important microfibril protein, fibrillin-2, ..... with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome type VI. Nat Genet 1992, 2:228-231. 30. Ewart A, Morris C, Ensing G, Loker J, Moore C, Leppert M, Keating M: A human vascular disease, supravalvular aortic stenosis, maps to chro- mosome 7. ...
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View Post: ehlers danlos syndrome and the heart
27 Sep 2008 by Aspilac  
ehlers danlos syndrome (eds) is a heterogeneous group of heritable connective tissue disorders characterized by varying degrees of skin elasticity, joint hyperextensibility, and cutaneous fragility classified as types i–x. ...
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