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Clinical and genetic features of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome type IV, the vascular type.
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Abstract
Ehlers-Danlos syndrome type IV, the vascular type, results from mutations in the gene for type III procollagen (COL3A1). Affected patients are at risk for arterial, bowel, and uterine rupture, but the timing of these events, their frequency, and the course of the disease are not well documented.