Abstract
Marfan syndrome is associated with significant cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. This chapter discusses the presentation, diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular disease in the child with Marfan syndrome and highlights pitfalls in diagnosis and controversies in management.
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- Ace-inhibitors
- Adolescence
- Adolescent
- American academy of paediatrics
- Angiotensin-receptor blockade
- Aortic regurgitation
- Arm span
- Arrhythmias
- Atenolol
- Beta-blockers
- Body surface area
- Bundle branch block
- Calcium antagonists
- Contraception
- Diastolic function
- Dural ectasia
- Elastin
- Electrocardiography (ECG)
- Emotional needs
- Endothelial dysfunction
- Exercise
- Follow-up
- Genetic linkage studies
- Heart failure
- Height
- Lifestyle
- Low-risk
- Megalocornea
- Micrognathia
- Multidisciplinary clinic
- Musculoskeletal
- Myopia
- Paediatric
- Pectus excavatum
- Pregnancy
- Prenatal diagnosis
- Protrusio acetabula
- Revised Ghent nosology
- Risk stratification
- Scaffold
- Sternal abnormality
- Sternal repair
- Systolic clicks
- Transforming-growth factor beta (TGFβ)
- Valve repair
- Ventricular premature beats
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Stuart, G. (2016). The child with Marfan syndrome: A paediatric cardiology approach. In Diagnosis and Management of Marfan Syndrome (pp. 27–38). Springer-Verlag London Ltd. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5442-6_5
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