Purpose: To identify the ocular abnormalities in Marfan´s syndrome patients. Methods: Prospective study of 46 Marfan patients with complete ophthalmologic evaluation. Seventeen patients also underwent a clinical ...

Marfan syndrome is a rare disease, caused by a genetic mutation of fibrillin-1, essential for the synthesis of connective tissue elastic fibers. It is characterized by a high penetrance and a marked phenotypic ...

Marfan syndrome (MFS) is an autosomal dominant disease of the connective tissue that affects the ocular, skeletal and cardiovascular systems, with a wide clinical variability. Although mutations in the FBN1 gene have been ...

We report the case of a 4-year-old boy with Marfan syndrome whose parents reported he had had low visual acuity since birth. On examination, there was microspherophakia and a small subluxation of the lens. The objective ...

Purpose: Marfan syndrome is a dominant autosomal disease provoked by mutations of gene of fibrillin 1, chromosome 15, and may exhibit skeletal, ocular, cardiovascular and other manifestations. Pulse wave velocity (PWV) is ...

Introducción: El síndrome de Marfán es un trastorno multisistémico del tejido conectivo de herencia autosómica dominante, de expresión variable. La ectasia dural es un compromiso frecuente, pero poco conocido, que puede ...