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Children with vascular Ehlers-Danlos syndrome often struggle with heart problems. At Stanford Medicine Children’s Health, we collaborate closely with our renowned heart specialists at Betty Irene Moore Children’s Heart Center. Our skilled pediatric heart surgeons are sometimes the only ones in the world who can perform a complex heart surgery, even when you have been told by other health care providers that such procedure won’t be possible for your child.
As with other connective tissue disorders, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome involves a mutated gene that affects proteins that make up connective tissue in your child’s body. With vascular Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, this protein is collagen III, and the specific gene is COL3A1. When collagen III is abnormal, it can affect your child’s body, skin, joints, blood vessels, and organs such as the heart and lungs.
Children with vascular Ehlers-Danlos syndrome can have mild or severe signs and may have characteristic facial features such as a small chin, thin nose and lips, and deep-set, large eyes. Skin can appear translucent with veins easily visible.
Learn more by visiting the Ehlers-Danlos Society or the VEDS Movement
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