Recruitment into the study was closed in November 2010. Recruitment for the first phase of the study (which included a 3-year follow-up period) ended in November 2010. For the second phase, in October ...

ST. LOUIS. (Ivanhoe Newswire) - Marfan syndrome is a genetic disorder that affects the body’s connective tissue; these tissues hold all the body’s cells and organs together. One in 5,000 people have ...

April 12, 2005 -- Patients with Marfan syndrome with an aortic root diameter of more than 3 cm should be considered for prophylactic surgery, according to the results of a Markov decision analysis ...

Purpose: Marfan syndrome is an autosomal dominant disorder historically defined by well-characterized features in the cardiovascular, ocular, and skeletal systems. To date, there have been no reports ...

A total of 82 patients, 51 patients with MFS (30 female and 21 male, mean age: 40.20 ± 15.35 years) and 31 controls (17 female and 14 male, mean age: 40.29 ± 13.94 years), were examined. Regarding ...

Purpose: The prevalence of most minor cardiovascular manifestations in Marfan syndrome (MFS) is unknown. We assessed the prevalence of minor cardiovascular manifestations in MFS to evaluate their ...

Patients with congenital heart defects, such as Marfan syndrome (MFS), are experiencing longer life expectancies due to new advances in medicine-resulting in a greater need for medical rehabilitation.

A rare disease, Marfan Syndrome can cause sudden cardiac death in the young and in athletes, but Marfan is only one disease that kills young athletes. "Reasonable and careful screening of young ...

Marfan syndrome is a genetic disorder that disrupts the connective tissues that anchor and link the body's organs, affecting the eyes, heart, skeleton, and blood vessels. Patients with Marfan often ...

BARCELONA, Spain—(UPDATED) In patients with Marfan syndrome, both angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs) as well as beta-blockers reduce the rate of aortic enlargement by roughly half compared with ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Often, hospital patients look for anything to take their minds off why they're there. For Jaelyn Kirby, that meant simply looking out the window. "I had no idea this would ...