Diagnosis of Marfan Syndrome

​In her two-part Casebook Appearances Can Be Deceptive Dr Child discussed the misleading mimics and disguised carriers of Marfan syndrome
10 Sep 2020
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Dr Child's Casebook: Appearances Can Be Deceptive – A Relative Anomaly. PART II

Making itself known in the skeletal system, Marfan syndrome is usually visible for all to see in its height supremacy
9 Sep 2020
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Marfan Syndrome Can Be a Pain in the Behind

Marfan syndrome can be many things, including a pain in the behind ... as Marfan warrior and prolific blogger Lucy Atkinson discovered to her horror
6 Sep 2020
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Straight up!

A momentous innovation in the surgical treatment of scoliosis was recently reported to our Facebook page
3 Sep 2020
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Dr Child's Casebook: Appearances Can Be Deceptive – The Relative Anomaly

A study of tallness in Marfan people found their mean height was above the 95 percentile for the general population by their third birthday
2 Sep 2020
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Dr Child's Casebook: Heartfelt Connections - Dental Decay and Heart Disease

All roads lead to the heart, they say, including the route ferrying oral bacteria from the mouth
26 Aug 2020
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Dr Child's Casebook: Every Breath You Take

A multi-faceted condition, Marfan syndrome often presents different problems simultaneously
19 Aug 2020
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Dr Child's Casebook: Ready Or Not?

By acquiring the simple basics of first aid, parents can protect their children form cuts and bruises to asthma attacks and choking
12 Aug 2020
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Dr Child's Casebook: Through The Ages

Hindsight is 20/20, as the proverb goes. With a belated Marfan diagnosis in the family, everything that has gone on before can suddenly make sense
5 Aug 2020
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Dr Child's Casebook: Best Foot Forward

Our feet take us places, they are the platforms on which we navigate the word’s bumpy terrain
29 Jul 2020
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Dexamethasone – A Panacea?

From humble steroid to heralded superhero, Dexamethasone is a basic anti-inflammatory recently catapulted into the headlines
23 Jul 2020
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Dr Child's Casebook: Navigating a New Normal

With ‘encouragement’ from the government we are returning to life ‘almost as we know it’
22 Jul 2020
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Dr Child's Casebook: What’s in a Name?

A condition with many faces, Marfan syndrome means different things to different patients
15 Jul 2020
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Dr Child's Casebook: The Big Soak – Disability Funds

Increasingly perceived as a luxury, baths remain a necessity for many
8 Jul 2020
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Pause For Thought - The Power of Mindfulness

Pressing pause on modern life has offered the world significant pause for thought
3 Jul 2020

Dr Child's Casebook: Practice Dilemma

Is your GP surgery imparting clinical expertise, or misinformation and misdiagnosis characterised by a general lack of support?
1 Jul 2020
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Dr Child's Casebook: To Jab Or Not To Jab During Covid-19

One patient asked on behalf of her teenage son and we have shared the exchange below while protecting the family’s identity
24 Jun 2020
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Dr Child's Casebook: Life After 50 for a Mature Marfan

With increasingly sophisticated treatment and awareness comes longevity of life as Marfan folk grow older with their syndrome
17 Jun 2020
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Life in Lockdown with Marfan Syndrome

As someone with Marfan syndrome I wanted to write something useful about what life has been like in lockdown during the coronavirus pandemic
16 Jun 2020

Gastrointestinal Disturbances in Marfan syndrome

​A significant proportion of patients with Marfan syndrome (MFS) have gastrointestinal disturbances constituting irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)
11 Jun 2020
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