Detecting Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome Early in Life Is an Urgent Priority

Hamonet C¹*, Ducret L² and Bahloul H³

Received: August 08, 2019   Published: August 19, 2019

DOI: 10.32474/PAPN.2019.02.000139

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Abstract

Ehlers-Danlos syndrome is a frequent hereditary disease that affects all the connective tissue and is transmitted to all the children of an affected person. A diagnosis is possible, from birth, or shortly thereafter, when observing a clubfoot, hip dislocation, intestinal intussusception, acute umbilical or inguinal parietal hernia, hemorrhages [cutaneous, oral, gastric, intestinal, nasal], persistent constipation, regurgitation and vomiting during bottle-feeding, or false roads. These symptoms are often the cause of false allegations of abuse with children withdrawal and wrongful parents or false accusations of Munchausen disease “by delegation” in a parent, the mother most often.

Keywords: Ehlers-Danlos; hereditary disease; early diagnosis; ecchymosis; fractures; children abuse; hypemobility

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