Open AccessEHLER DANLOS SYNDROME WITH PREGNANCY
Author(s) -
Nabeela Ata
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
the professional medical journal/the professional medical journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2071-7733
pISSN - 1024-8919
DOI - 10.29309/tpmj/2006.13.03.5002
Subject(s) - medicine , ehlers–danlos syndrome , pregnancy , dermatology , anatomy , pathology , genetics , biology
Ehlers Danlos syndrome is a group of disorders, whichhave common feature including easy bruising jointhypermobility skin that stretches easily and weakness oftissue 1. It is inherited in the genes that are passed fromparents to off spring. They are categorized according tothe form of genetic transmission into different types withmany features differing between patients in any giventype. In 2001, researches discovered a new form orEhlers Danlos syndrome that is caused by an inheritedabnormality in a protein other than collagen that alsonormally plays a role in binding together the cells of ourtissue (including the skin, tendons, muscle and bloodvessels). Abnormalities in this protein called tenascin,also lead to a form that tensacin could play a role inregulating the normal distribution of collage in connectivetime of the body2.