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Articles.

• Gene Linked in Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome.

• Living with Ehlers-Danlos.

• Orthopedic Manifestations Of Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome: A New Perspective.

• Ehlers-Danlos and the Urinary Tract.  Peter Cuckow FRCS (UK EDS Support Group)

• Obstetric and Gynecologic Dysfunction in the Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. (EDNF)

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Medical Journal Abstracts

• Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome Associated With Ollier Disease.

• Evaluation for sleep apnea in patients with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome and Marfan: a questionnaire study

• A recessive form of the Ehlers-Danlos syndrome caused by tenascin-X deficiency

• Absence of the inferior labial and lingual frenula in Ehlers-Danlos syndrome

• Urinary incontinence and pelvic organ prolapse in women with Marfan or Ehlers-Danlos

• Recurrent ventral herniation in Ehlers-Danlos syndrome

• Recurrent instability of the elbow in the Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. A report of three cases and a new technique of surgical stabilisation

• Ehlers-Danlos syndrome with bladder diverticula

• Pregnancy and the Ehlers-Danlos syndrome: a retrospective study in a Dutch population

• Treatment of periodontal disease in a patient with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome.

• Temporomandibular joint problems and self-registration of mandibular opening capacity among adults with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. A questionnaire study.

• Total knee arthroplasty in Ehlers-Danlos syndrome.

• Spontaneous patellar tendon rupture in a patient with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome.

• Mendelian arterial diseases. Pseudoxanthoma elasticum, Ehlers-Danlos vascular syndrome, Rendu-Osler disease.

• Aortic aneurysms excluding Marfan's syndrome.

• Labor analgesia for the parturient with an uncommon disorder: a common dilemma in the delivery suite.

• Coronary arteriomegaly in a patient with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome and multiple aneurysms--a case report.

• Intermittent self-nasal packing for intractable epistaxis in a patient with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome.

• A new type of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome associated with tortuous systemic arteries?

• Chiropractic management of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome: a report of two cases.

• Acceptance of disability and sense of coherence in individuals with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome.

• Aortic dissection: new frontiers in diagnosis and management: Part I: from etiology to diagnostic strategies.

• Surgery of the dilated aortic root and ascending aorta in pediatric patients: techniques and results.

• Overview of inherited metabolic disorders causing cardiovascular disease.

• Candidate locus analysis of familial ascending aortic aneurysms and dissections confirms the linkage to the chromosome 5q13-14 in Finnish families.

• Abnormal oral mucosal light reflectance: a new clinical sign of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome.

• Haploinsufficiency of TNXB is associated with hypermobility type of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome.

• Tenascins: regulation and putative functions during pathological stress.

• The Ehlers-Danlos syndrome: the extracellular matrix scaffold in question.

• Post traumatic subconjunctival dislocation of lens in Ehlers-Danlos syndrome.

• XGalT-1 involved in the synthesis of glyosaminoglycans of proteoglycans and Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (progeroid type).

• A new type of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome associated with tortuous systemic arteries in a large kindred from Qatar.

• A case of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome with subsequent formation of aneurysms of femoral, carotid.

• Connective tissue dysplasia syndrome in cardiological practice.

• Thermal capsulorraphy of bilateral glenohumeral joints in a pediatric patient with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome.

• Carotid and vertebral artery dissection: Magnetic Resonance findings in 15 cases.

• Natural history of cervical arterial dissections. Review of the literature and preliminary results from a national study group.

• Effect of osteotomy metal plate anastomosis with the femur on stimulation of lower femur growth in children.

• Major intra-abdominal complications following extracorporeal shockwave lithotripsy (ESWL) in a patient with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome.

• Anesthesia considerations in Ehlers-Danlos syndrome.

• Galactosyltransferase I is a gene responsible for progeroid variant of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome: molecular cloning and identification of mutations.

• Localization and analysis of the principal promoter for human tenascin-X.

• Carriership of a defective tenascin-X gene in steroid 21-hydroxylase deficiency patients: TNXB -TNXA hybrids in apparent large-scale gene conversions.

• Neurocutaneous syndromes.

• Operative and endovascular management of extracranial vertebral artery aneurysm in Ehlers-Danlos syndrome:a clinical dilemma--case report and literature review.

• Ultrastructural connective tissue aberrations in patients with intracranial aneurysms.

• Matrix metalloproteinase inhibitor therapy to prevent complications as well as therapy for Ehlers-Danlos syndrome.

• Prevalence of aortic root dilation in the Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. This article was printed in the Fall-Winter 2002 issue of EDS Today.

• A case of Melkersson-Rosenthal syndrome associated with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome.

• Phenotypic effects of biglycan deficiency are linked to collagen fibril abnormalities, are synergized by decorin deficiency, and mimic Ehlers-Danlos-like changes in bone and other connective tissues.

• Surgical correction of entropion and excess upper eyelid skin in congenital cutis laxa: a case report.

• Treatment of periodontal disease in a patient with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. A case report and literature review.

• Long-term survival in truncus arteriosus communis type A1 associated with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome--a case report.

• Clinical and genetic features of vascular Ehlers-Danlos syndrome.

• Treatment of tracheobronchomegaly with an Ultraflex prosthesis. A case report

• Pregnancy and the Ehlers-Danlos syndrome: a retrospective study in a Dutch population.

• Evaluation for sleep apnea in patients with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome and Marfan: a questionnaire study.

• Bilateral hip dislocations in a father and son with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome.

• Spontaneous perforation of the globe in Ehlers Danlos syndrome.

• Special feature: pathological case of the month.

• Missing inferior labial and lingual frenula in Ehlers-Danlos syndrome.

• Creativity and chronic disease. Niccolo Paganini (1782-1840).

• Elastosis perforans serpiginosa and associated disorders.

• The role of arthroscopic thermal capsulorrhaphy in the hip.

• A recessive form of the Ehlers-Danlos syndrome caused by tenascin-X deficiency.

• Genomic organization of the human COL3A1 and COL5A2 genes: COL5A2 has evolved differently than the other minor fibrillar collagen genes.

• Deficiency of the decorin core protein in the variant form of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome with chronic skin ulcer.

• Hydra and Niccolo Paganini (1782-1840)--two peas in a pod? The molecular basis of extracellular matrix structure in the invertebrate, Hydra.

• Blepharoclonus and Arnold-Chiari malformation.

• An autopsy case of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome showing various types of cerebrovascular disease.

• Oral manifestations of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. This article was printed in the Spring-Summer 2002 issue of EDS Today.

• Pathogenesis of cervical artery dissections: association with connective tissue abnormalities.

• Surgical treatment of multiple aneurysms in a patient with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome.

• Absence of the inferior labial and lingual frenula in Ehlers-Danlos syndrome.

• Clinical study of venous thromboembolism during pregnancy and puerperium.

• Identification of a chromosome 11q23.2-q24 locus for familial aortic aneurysm disease, a genetically heterogeneous disorder.

• Ehlers-Danlos syndrome with bladder diverticula.

• What syndrome is this? Ehlers-Danlos syndrome.

• The real connective tissue diseases.

• The Ehlers-Danlos syndrome presenting with flank pain.

• The Ehlers-Danlos syndrome: on beyond collagens.

• Collagens and collagen-related diseases.

• Usefulness of online bibliographic research in biomedical research, with an application to the epidemiologic study of genetic osteopathy.

• Homozygosity for a splice site mutation of the COL1A2 gene yields a non-functional pro(alpha)2(I) chain and an EDS/OI clinical phenotype.

• Ehlers-Danlos syndrome mimicking mesenteric vasculitis: therapy, then diagnosis.

• Ehlers-Danlos syndrome associated with acute pancreatitis.

• Ehlers-Danlos type VIII. Review of the literature.

• Association between heritable connective tissue disorders and intracranial aneurysms.

• Marfan and other connective tissue disorders: conservative and surgical considerations.

• Recurrent ventral herniation in Ehlers-Danlos syndrome.

• Congenital bladder diverticulum and Ehlers-Danlos syndrome: an unusual association.

• Clinical phenotypes and molecular characterisation of three patients with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome type VII.

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Link Sites

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• Hypermobile Joints Forum Links Page.

• Resource List for Hypermobile Joints.