Abstract
Marfan syndrome (MFS) is a disease in which connective tissue becomes weak because of genetic mutation, resulting in aortic dilatation, aneurysm, dissection, aortic regurgitation and mitral valve prolapse.
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- Abdominal pain
- Aneurysm
- Aortic dilatation
- Aortic regurgitation
- Aortic stiffness
- Apoptosis
- Atherosclerosis
- Atrial fibrillation
- Autosomal dominant
- Back pain
- Bradycardia
- Bronchospasm
- Calcification
- Cardiomyopathy
- Collagenases
- Colour flow doppler
- Contact sports
- Coronary artery
- Cystic medial necrosis
- Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM)
- Dissection
- Distal aorta
- Doppler index
- Doxycycline
- ECM degradation
- Ejection volume
- Emergency surgery
- Endoleaks
- Endothelial function
- Exercise
- Extracellular matrix (ECM)
- FBN1 gene
- False lumen
- Fibrillin-1
- Floppy mitral valve
- Heart failure
- Holter ECG
- Hypotension
- Infancy
- Ion channels
- Leading-edge
- Left atrium
- Life expectancy
- Lipid metabolism
- Loeys-Dietz syndrome
- Losartan
- MMP-2
- MMP-9
- MV replacement
- Mice
- Missense mutations
- Mitral valve prolapse
- Mortality
- Myxomatous degeneration
- New mutation
- Nonsense mutations
- Obstructive sleep apnoea
- Paediatric
- Population incidence
- Pregnancy
- Premature atrial beats
- Premature ventricular beats
- Prolonged atrioventricular conduction
- Pulmonary artery dilatation
- QT interval prolongation
- Renin-angiotensin pathway
- Repolarisation
- ST segment depression
- Sinus of valsalva
- Smoking
- Splice site mutations
- Stanford type A
- Stanford type B dissection
- Stent graft
- Stop codons
- Stress ECGs
- Sudden cardiac death
- TGF-β
- TGF-β pathway
- Tricuspid regurgitation (TR)
- Tricuspid valve
- Ventricular arrhythmia
- Ventricular tachycardia
- Z score
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Isekame, Y., & Gati, S. (2016). Cardiac management. In Diagnosis and Management of Marfan Syndrome (pp. 39–56). Springer-Verlag London Ltd. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5442-6_6
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