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20635400

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
8
pubmed:dateCreated
2010-7-27
pubmed:abstractText
The vascular type of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS IV) is associated with a high risk of life-threatening medical complications, including ruptures of large arteries, the intestine, and the uterus during pregnancy. An arterial rupture occurring in an individual with EDS is regarded as almost diagnostic of EDS IV, which is caused by heterozygous mutations in COL3A1. Here however, we report on a man with skin lesions typical of EDS, easy bruising and recurrent inguinal hernias who had a spontaneous rupture of the left common iliac artery at the age of 42 years but in whom we detected no COL3A1 mutation. As he clinically fulfilled the diagnostic criteria for classic EDS (EDS I), we sequenced the major EDS I gene COL5A1 and identified a heterozygous de novo nonsense mutation, c.3184C>T (p.R1062X). As, to the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of a patient with COL5A1 mutation-positive classic EDS and rupture of a large artery, we suggest that arterial rupture might be a rare complication of classic EDS. This finding has potential implications for genetic counseling and molecular genetic testing in Ehlers-Danlos syndrome.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Aug
pubmed:issn
1552-4833
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
152A
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
2090-3
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2010
pubmed:articleTitle
Arterial rupture in classic Ehlers-Danlos syndrome with COL5A1 mutation.
pubmed:affiliation
Institute of Human Genetics, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany. guntram.borck@uk-koeln.de
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Case Reports, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't