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Vascular type Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS) is a rare inherited disease with an autosomal dominant trait. The mutation of the COL3A1 gene which encodes type III collagen, is responsible of early vascular (spontaneous arterial rupture or dissection), digestive (perforation) and obstetrical events (uterine and arterial rupture). Diagnosis of the disease is primarily clinical, especially in case of characteristic morphologic features. Diagnostic certainty is obtained by evidencing the mutation of the COL3A1 gene. Some arterial lesions are suggestive of the disease, as dissecting aneurysms of the internal carotid, of the iliac arteries, and of the anterior visceral aortic branches, fusiform aneurisms of the splenic artery, and the occurrence of a non traumatic direct carotid-cavernous fistula. The occurrence of a spontaneous peritonitis or of an extensive perineal tear after delivery should also draw physician's attention. Because of the unpredictability of arterial or organ rupture, any patient diagnosed with vascular type EDS presenting with an acute pain syndrome should be considered as a trauma situation and be investigated straightaway by CT-scan or MRI testing, in order to eliminate a life threatening complication.
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PMID:[Vascular Ehlers-Danlos syndrome]. 1946 62

Vascular Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (vEDS), a genetic disorder caused by mutations in procollagen type III gene (COL3A1), may lead to fatal vascular complication during peripartum period because of the arterial fragility. We experienced a case of vEDS with peripartum life-threatening arterial rapture diagnosed by next-generation sequencing (NGS) and successfully treated the vascular complications. A 25-year-old female in pregnancy at 34 weeks had sudden and acute pain in the left lower abdomen. After successful delivery, her computed tomography scan showed a dissecting aneurysm of the left common iliac artery (CIA). Four days after delivery, she presented in hemorrhagic shock induced by arterial rupture in the CIA. Since her clinical presentations inferred vEDS even in the absence of familial history, we performed NGS-based genetic screening for inherited connective tissue disorders including vEDS with informed consent. Even though we started intensive medication, her iliac aneurysm was progressively enlarging within 3 weeks. After an urgent molecular diagnosis for vEDS (a splice-site mutation), cautious endovascular therapy for her CIA aneurysm was successfully performed. This is the first report for pretreatment molecular diagnosis of vEDS using NGS in an emergent situation of severe vascular complications.
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PMID:Peripartum Iliac Arterial Aneurysm and Rupture in a Patient with Vascular Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome Diagnosed by Next-Generation Sequencing. 3015 81