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Diseases, Volume 3, Issue 1

March 2015 - 4 articles

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Kid-Short Marfan Score (Kid-SMS) Is a Useful Diagnostic Tool for Stratifying the Pre-Test Probability of Marfan Syndrome in Childhood

Veronika C. Stark,
Florian Arndt,
Gesa Harring,
Yskert Von Kodolitsch,
Rainer Kozlik-Feldmann,
Goetz C. Mueller,
Kristoffer J. Steiner and
Thomas S. Mir

Diseases2015, 3(1), 24-33;https://doi.org/10.3390/diseases3010024

12 March 2015

Due to age dependent organ manifestation, diagnosis of Marfan syndrome (MFS) is a challenge, especially in childhood. It is important to identify children at risk of MFS as soon as possible to direct those to appropriate treatment but also to avoid s...

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Prognostication in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension with Submaximal Exercise Testing

Vinod Khatri,
Jennifer E. Neal,
Charles D. Burger and
Augustine S. Lee

Diseases2015, 3(1), 15-23;https://doi.org/10.3390/diseases3010015

6 February 2015

Introduction: The submaximal exercise test (SET), which gives both a measure of exercise tolerance, as well as disease severity, should be a more robust functional and prognostic marker than the six-minute walk test (6MWT). This study aimed to determ...

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Personalised External Aortic Root Support (PEARS) Compared with Alternatives for People with Life-Threatening Genetically Determined Aneurysms of the Aortic Root

Tom Treasure and
John Pepper

Diseases2015, 3(1), 2-14;https://doi.org/10.3390/diseases3010002

15 January 2015

Personalised external aortic support was first proposed in 2000 by Tal Golesworthy, an engineer with familial Marfan syndrome and an aortic root aneurysm. After putting together a research and development team, and finding a surgeon to take on the ch...

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