Ehlers danlos sydrome

Explanation

• Defect in connective tissue
• joint hyperextensibilty
• skin extensitivity
• tissue fragility

Symptoms

• Joint pain
• Soft, velvety, and fragile skin
• Easy/severe scarring
• Slow/poor wound healing
• Scoliosis

Awareness

• Ehlers Danlos National Foundtion
• May is awareness month

Vascular EDS

• Minor trauma can cause rupture of arterial or organ
• Difficult to diagnose
• Distinct facial features
• Visible veins

Classical Eds

• Highly elastic and soft skin
• Dominant gene
• Non-cancerous growths

Hypermobility

• Chronic joint pains
• Large and small joints are unstable
• Some joints dislocate often
• Most common

Kyphoscoliosis Eds

• Muscle hypotonia
• Progressive scoliosis
• Delayed gross motor development
• Spontaneous arterial rupture

Dermatosparaxis Eds

• Skin fragility
• Substantial brusing
• Sagging skin
• Very rare

tenascin-x deficient eds

• Joint hypermobility
• Hyper elastic skin
• Recessive gene