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Features - memory device ''MARFAN'':
Features - memory device ''MARFAN'':
*Mitral valve prolapse.
*Mitral valve prolapse.
*Aortic aneurysm.
*Arachnodactyly (long slender fingers & toes) and other skeletal abnormalities (e.g. pectus excavatum, kyphoscoliosis).
*Retinal detachment.
*Retinal detachment.
*Fibrillin-1 defect.<ref name=pmid20351703>{{Cite journal  | last1 = Cañadas | first1 = V. | last2 = Vilacosta | first2 = I. | last3 = Bruna | first3 = I. | last4 = Fuster | first4 = V. | title = Marfan syndrome. Part 1: pathophysiology and diagnosis. | journal = Nat Rev Cardiol | volume = 7 | issue = 5 | pages = 256-65 | month = May | year = 2010 | doi = 10.1038/nrcardio.2010.30 | PMID = 20351703 }}</ref>
*Fibrillin-1 defect.<ref name=pmid20351703>{{Cite journal  | last1 = Cañadas | first1 = V. | last2 = Vilacosta | first2 = I. | last3 = Bruna | first3 = I. | last4 = Fuster | first4 = V. | title = Marfan syndrome. Part 1: pathophysiology and diagnosis. | journal = Nat Rev Cardiol | volume = 7 | issue = 5 | pages = 256-65 | month = May | year = 2010 | doi = 10.1038/nrcardio.2010.30 | PMID = 20351703 }}</ref>
*Arachnodactyly (long slender fingers & toes).
*Aortic aneurysm.
*Negative nitroprusside test.
*Neurologic - ''dural ectasia''.<ref>URL: [http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/946315-overview http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/946315-overview]. Accessed on: 6 September 2010.</ref>
**Nitroprusside test done to r/o homocystinuria.


==See also==
==See also==
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==References==
==References==
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==External links==
*[http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/946315-overview Marfan syndrome (emedicine.medscape.com)].


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