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Marfan Syndrome: A Primer for Clinicians
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Peter Robinson
Universitätsklinikum Charite

Maurice Godfrey
University of Nebraska


ISBN: 978-0-306-48238-0
Pub date: 2004-10-15
232 pages


Table of contents

Marfan syndrome: Historical overview
Victor A. McKusick

Marfan syndrome: Overview, diagnosis and differential diagnosis
Peter Robinson

Marfan syndrome: Cardiovascular aspects
Y. v. Kodolitsch

Marfan syndrome: Orthopedic aspects
Paul Sponseller

Marfan syndrome: Ophthalmologic aspects
Thomas Rosenberg

Marfan Syndrome: Cardiovascular surgery
Vincent Gott and Duke Cameron

Mutation analysis of the FBN1 gene in individuals with Marfan syndrome: Sensitivity, methods, clinical indications
Anne De Paepe

Fibrillin-2 mutations in congenital contractural arachnodactyly.
Maurice Godfrey

Marfan mutation database
Catherine Boileau

Familial thoracic aortic aneurysms and dissections: The role of fibrillin and other genes
Dianna M. Milewicz

Fibrillin and fibrillin-rich microfibrils
Lynn Y. Sakai

Assembly of microfibrils
Dieter P. Reinhardt

MAGP1 and other non-fibrillin components of the microfibril
Mark A. Gibson

Organization and biomechanical properties of microfibrils
A. Shuttleworth and C. Kielty

Overview and Animal models of Marfan syndrome.
H. Dietz and F. Ramirez

Insights into structural consequences of FBN1 mutations from domain studies
Penny Handford