Hereditary connective tissue disorders
Hereditary connective tissue diseases are a group of connective tissue disease that have a degree of inheritance risk. They include:
- Marfan syndrome: genetic disease causing abnormal fibrillin
- Ehlers-Danlos syndrome: progressive deterioration of collagen and affects joints, heart valves, organ walls, arterial walls and soft tissues
- osteogenesis imperfecta: insufficient good quality collagen for bone formation
- Stickler syndrome: affects collagen and results in characteristic facies
- epidermolysis bullosa: a blistering condition of the skin
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