hereditary connective tissue disease

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

Siehe auch:

• Osteogenesis imperfecta
• Ehlers-Danlos syndrome
• Stickler-Syndrom

und weiter:

• CTD-ILD