Table 3 Type 1 fibrillinopathies.
Syndrome | Clinical features | Reference |
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MFS | See text | See text |
Neonatal MFS | Severe end of clinical spectrum | Kainulainen et al,117 Booms et al129 |
Atypically severe MFS | Severe and early onset cardiovascular complications | Putnam et al,130 Tiecke et al,131 |
Ectopia lentis | Mainly ocular findings | Lönnqvist et al,132 Ades et al,133 |
Kyphoscoliosis | Progressive kyphoscoliosis of variable severity | Ades et al134 |
Familial arachnodactyly | Dolichostenomelia and arachnodactyly | Hayward et al135 |
Familial thoracic ascending aortic | See text | |
aneurysms and dissections | ||
MASS phenotype | Mitral valve prolapse, aortic dilatation without dissection, | Dietz et al136 |
skeletal and skin abnormalities | ||
Shprintzen‐Goldberg syndrome | Craniosynostosis, a marfanoid habitus, and skeletal, | Sood et al,137 Kosaki et al138 Robinson et al139 |
neurological, cardiovascular, and connective tissue anomalies | ||
Isolated skeletal features | Tall stature, scoliosis, pectus excavatum, arachnodactyly | Milewicz et al50 |
New variant of MFS | Skeletal features of MFS, joint contractures, ectopia lentis, | Ståhl‐Hallengren et al,140 Black et al,141 |
no cardiovascular manifestations | ||
Weill‐Marchesani syndrome | Short stature, brachydactyly, joint stiffness, and | Faivre et al142 |
(autosomal dominant) | characteristic eye abnormalities |
Although classic MFS is by far the most common disorder associated with FBN1 mutations, several other disorders with overlapping clinical findings have been described due to mutations in FBN1.