The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has designated allopurinol as the first orphan drug for the treatment of Marfan syndrome, a rare connective tissue disease which has no cure to date.

People with connective tissue disorders raised money for research and awareness with family, friends and supporters from the ...

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has designated allopurinol as the first orphan drug for the treatment of Marfan syndrome, a rare connective tissue disease which as no cure to date. This ...

Living with this disease has given me a new ... Deboki Chakravarti: Right, and so for Marfan syndrome, that protein is called fibrillin-I, and so this helps mix the fibers that are in our connective ...

A 7-year-old Arabic girl presented to the emergency department with acute vision loss in the left eye that began that morning ...

Claire and her two sisters Amelia, 13, and Merrin, 9, have Marfan syndrome, a genetic disorder that affects the body's connective tissue. The McEwen girls are tall, skinny and have super long arms ...

Neither severity nor activity of disease ... connective-tissue disorders. This heterogeneous group of 21 patients included 6 with rheumatoid arthritis, 4 with dermatomyositis, 3 with Sjögren's ...

Marfan syndrome is a rare genetic disorder of the connective tissue, affecting the skeleton, lungs, eyes, heart and blood vessels. The condition is caused by a defect in the gene that tells the body ...

Marfan syndrome is a heritable disorder of the connective tissue with an estimated prevalence of 1 in ... of different causative genes or gene loci (fig 1). Marfan syndrome as a disease that ...