Prevalence of dural ectasia in Loeys-Dietz syndrome: comparison with Marfan syndrome and normal controls.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Dural ectasia is well recognized in Marfan syndrome (MFS) as one of the major diagnostic criteria, but the exact prevalence of dural ectasia is still unknown in Loeys-Dietz syndrome (LDS), which is a recently discovered connective tissue disease. In this study, we evaluated t...

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Main Authors: Atsushi K Kono, Masahiro Higashi, Hiroko Morisaki, Takayuki Morisaki, Hiroaki Naito, Kazuro Sugimura
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3783378?pdf=render