Subtly different in their symptoms, Marfan and Loeys-Dietz both carry gastrointestinal implications that are similar but distinct, outlined in our table, below.
Research into gastrointestinal symptoms continues in connective tissue disorders, the most important thing to remember is not to ignore new symptoms or changes to your bowel habits such as:
• Bleeding from the rectum
• Weight loss of more than half a stone without trying
• Any persistent change in bowel habit (more than a month) for no obvious reason like change to diet, new medication, stress
• Persistent fevers or redness
Irritable Bowel Syndrome is a Functional Gastrointestinal Disorder (FGID) which means that frustratingly, despite numerous tests and investigations, people will not find an obvious cause for their troubling symptoms.
Gastrointestinal Inflammatory Disease may have similar symptoms but causes visible damage to the intestinal tissues, chronic inflammation is often involved.
