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(Circulation. 1965;32:602.)
© 1965 American Heart Association, Inc.

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Cardiovascular Aspects of the Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome

Report of a Case with Pulmonary Artery Bifidity and Aortic Arch Anomaly

PIERRE BOPP M.D.¹; KASSEM HATAM M.D.¹; PHILIPPE BUSSAT M.D.¹; GEORGES GREDER M.D.¹; PIERRE W. DUCHOSAL M.D.¹

¹ From the Centre de Cardiologie (Director: Dr. P. W. Duchosal), and the Department of Radiology (Director: Dr. P. Wettstein), University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland.

The case of a 10--year-old boy is reported because of the association of the Ehlers-Danlos syndrome with bifidity of the pulmonary artery and anomaly of the aortic arch.

The cardiovascular aspects of this connective-tissue disorder are reviewed, and the possibility of another common feature with the Marfan syndrome is briefly discussed.