- •CONTENTS
- •EDITORS
- •PREFACE
- •INTRODUCTION
- •2. Orthopaedic Problems in Marfan Syndrome
- •3. Ophthalmological Aspects
- •8. The Marfan Mutation Database
- •11. Assembly of Microfibrils
- •14. The Fibrillins and Key Molecular Mechanisms that Initiate Disease Pathways
- •15. Insights into Fibrillin-1 Structure and Function from Domain Studies
- •16. Genetics of Marfan Syndrome in Mouse Models
- •Index
• ROBINSON
YGODFRE
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APrimer forClinicians andScientists |
MarfanSyndrome: |
MEDICAL INTELLIGENCE UNIT
Peter N. Robinson and Maurice Godfrey
Marfan Syndrome: A Primer for Clinicians and Scientists
MEDICAL
INTELLIGENCE
UNIT
Marfan Syndrome:
A Primer for Clinicians and Scientists
Peter N. Robinson, M.D.
Institute of Medical Genetics
Charité University Hospital
Humboldt University
Berlin, Germany
Maurice Godfrey, Ph.D.
Department of Pediatrics and Center
for Human Molecular Genetics
Munroe-Meyer Institute
University of Nebraska Medical Center
Omaha, Nebraska, U.S.A.
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Marfan syndrome : a primer for clinicians and scientists / [edited by] Peter N. Robinson, Maurice Godfrey.
p. ; cm. -- (Medical intelligence unit) Includes bibliographic references and index. ISBN 0-306-48238-X
1. Marfan syndrome. I. Robinson, Peter N. (Peter Nicholas), 1963II. Godfrey, Maurice. III. Series: Medical intelligence unit (Unnumbered : 2003)
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CONTENTS
Preface .................................................................................................. |
xi |
Introduction: Historical Introduction |
|
The Marfan Syndrome: From Clinical Delineation |
|
to Mutational Characterization, a Semiautobiographic Account ............ |
1 |
Victor A. McKusick |
|
Tutelage in the Principle of Pleiotropism ............................................... |
3 |
Clinical Delineation of Marfan Syndrome |
|
and Three Main Principles of Clinical Genetics ................................. |
4 |
The Evolution of Clinical Management of the Marfan Syndrome ......... |
6 |
The Basic Defect ................................................................................... |
7 |
Marfan Support Groups ........................................................................ |
8 |
Public Awareness of Marfan Syndrome ................................................. |
9 |
Epilogue .............................................................................................. |
10 |
1. Diagnosis and Treatment of Marfan Syndrome—A Summary ............. |
13 |
Anne H. Child, Luitgard Neumann and Peter N. Robinson |
|
Overview ............................................................................................. |
13 |
Clinical Management .......................................................................... |
16 |
Inheritance .......................................................................................... |
17 |
The Differential Diagnosis of Marfan Syndrome ................................. |
19 |
2. Orthopaedic Problems in Marfan Syndrome ........................................ |
24 |
Paul Sponseller and Michael Shindle |
|
Overview ............................................................................................. |
24 |
Diagnosis ............................................................................................ |
24 |
Spinal Abnormalities ........................................................................... |
25 |
Hip Deformity .................................................................................... |
30 |
Joint Manifestations ............................................................................ |
31 |
Growth and Maturation ...................................................................... |
31 |
Bone Density ....................................................................................... |
31 |
Screening and Athletics ....................................................................... |
32 |
3. Ophthalmological Aspects .................................................................... |
35 |
Thomas Rosenberg |
|
The Role of the Ophthalmologist ........................................................ |
35 |
Key Symptoms .................................................................................... |
35 |
Ocular Pathophysiology ...................................................................... |
35 |
Clinical Signs ...................................................................................... |
37 |
Retina .................................................................................................. |
38 |
Ophthalmological Differential Diagnosis ............................................ |
39 |
Complications ..................................................................................... |
40 |
Management ....................................................................................... |
41 |
Surgery ................................................................................................ |
42 |
4. Cardiovascular Aspects of the Marfan Syndrome: |
|
A Systematic Review ............................................................................ |
45 |
Yskert von Kodolitsch and Maike Rybczynski |
|
Methods .............................................................................................. |
45 |
Prognosis and Causes of Death in Untreated MFS .............................. |
46 |
Prevalence of Cardiovascular Manifestations ....................................... |
47 |
Pathogenesis of Cardiovascular Disease ............................................... |
50 |
Concomitant Cardiovascular Disease ................................................... |
52 |
Cardiovascular Complications ............................................................. |
53 |
Pregnancy ............................................................................................ |
58 |
Diagnosis of Cardiovascular Abnormalities .......................................... |
59 |
General Measures of Management ....................................................... |
60 |
Medical Management .......................................................................... |
60 |
Indications for Surgery ........................................................................ |
61 |
Surgically Treated MFS Patients .......................................................... |
62 |
Strategies for Follow-Up ...................................................................... |
63 |
5. Cardiovascular Surgery: Surgical Management |
|
of the Marfan Patient at the Johns Hopkins Hospital .......................... |
70 |
Duke E. Cameron and Vincent L. Gott |
|
Indications for Cardiovascular Surgery ................................................ |
71 |
Surgical Procedures ............................................................................. |
73 |
Long Term Results of Surgery ............................................................. |
76 |
Long Term Management Following Aortic Root Replacement ............ |
80 |
6.Surgery for Cardiovascular Disorders in Marfan Syndrome: The Atrioventricular Valves, Distal Aortic Segments
and Myocardium .................................................................................. |
81 |
Roland Hetzer, Reinhard Pregla and Frank Barthel |
|
Atrioventricular Valves in Marfan Patients .......................................... |
82 |
Indications for Atrioventricular Valve Surgery ..................................... |
83 |
Techniques of Surgery ......................................................................... |
84 |
Surgery of the Distal Aortic Segments ................................................. |
85 |
Distal (Type B) Dissections and Aneurysm Formation |
|
in the Distal Aorta Following Ascending Replacement |
|
in Type A Dissection ....................................................................... |
89 |
Cardiomyopathy in Marfan Patients .................................................... |
90 |
Cardiovascular Disease in Children with Marfan Syndrome ................ |
90 |
Noncardiac Marfan Anomalies Affecting |
|
Cardiac Surgery Operations ............................................................. |
91 |
7. Mutation Analysis of the FBN1 Gene in Individuals |
|
with Marfan Syndrome: Sensitivity, Methods, |
|
Clinical Indications .............................................................................. |
93 |
Anne De Paepe, Bart Loeys and Paul Coucke |
|
Diagnosis of the Marfan Syndrome: |
|
Interpretation and Limitations of the Ghent Nosology .................... |
93 |
Methodology for Mutational Analysis of the FBN1 Gene .................... |
95 |
Clinical Indications for Mutation Analysis of the FBN1 Gene ............. |
97 |
8. The Marfan Mutation Database ......................................................... |
101 |
Gwenaëlle Collod-Béroud and Catherine Boileau |
|
Database ............................................................................................ |
101 |
Routines ............................................................................................ |
102 |
Mutation Analyses ............................................................................. |
103 |
FBN1 Polymorphism Database ......................................................... |
110 |
9. Familial Thoracic Aortic Aneurysms and Dissections ......................... |
113 |
Sumera N. Hasham and Dianna M. Milewicz |
|
Aortic Aneurysms and Dissections ..................................................... |
113 |
Thoracic Aortic Aneurysms and Dissection Associated |
|
with Genetic Syndromes ............................................................... |
114 |
Familial Thoracic Ascending Aortic Aneurysms and Dissections ....... |
115 |
10. Fibrillin-2 Mutations in Congenital Contractural Arachnodactyly ..... |
123 |
Maurice Godfrey |
|
Introduction and Clinical Phenotype ................................................ |
123 |
Diagnosis and Genetic Counseling .................................................... |
123 |
Management ..................................................................................... |
123 |
Severe/Lethal CCA ............................................................................ |
124 |
Molecular Genetics of CCA .............................................................. |
126 |
Fibrillin-2 in Development and Animal Models ................................ |
127 |
11. Assembly of Microfibrils .................................................................... |
130 |
Kerstin Tiedemann, Boris Bätge and Dieter P. Reinhardt |
|
Methodological Approaches to Study Microfibril Assembly ............... |
130 |
Microfibril Assembly Is Often Disturbed |
|
in Individuals with MFS ................................................................ |
131 |
Role of Propeptide Processing in Fibrillin Assembly .......................... |
133 |
Role of Intermolecular Cross-Link Formation |
|
in Fibrillin Assembly ..................................................................... |
134 |
Interaction Epitopes Important for Fibrillin Assembly ....................... |
136 |
Mouse Models and Fibrillin Assembly ............................................... |
138 |
Future Directions .............................................................................. |
139 |
12. Organization and Biomechanical Properties |
|
of Fibrillin Microfibrils ...................................................................... |
143 |
Cay M. Kielty, Tim J. Wess, J. Louise Haston, Michael J. Sherratt, |
|
Clair Baldock and C. Adrian Shuttleworth |
|
Tissue Organisation of Fibrillin-Rich Microfibrils ............................. |
144 |
Organisation of Isolated Microfibrils ................................................. |
148 |
Mechanical Properties of Microfibrils ................................................ |
150 |
13. Microfibril-Associated Glycoprotein-1 (MAGP-1) |
|
and Other Non-Fibrillin Macromolecules Which May Possess |
|
a Functional Association with the 10 nm Microfibrils ........................ |
161 |
Mark A. Gibson |
|
MAGPs ............................................................................................. |
162 |
Function of MAGPs .......................................................................... |
165 |
Other Small Microfibril-Associated Proteins (MFAPs) ...................... |
167 |
Proteoglycans .................................................................................... |
169 |
Fibulins ............................................................................................. |
170 |
LTBPs ............................................................................................... |
171 |
Emilins .............................................................................................. |
172 |
Other Proteins ................................................................................... |
172 |
Involvement in Human Genetic Diseases .......................................... |
172 |
14. The Fibrillins and Key Molecular Mechanisms |
|
that Initiate Disease Pathways ............................................................ |
178 |
Lynn Y. Sakai |
|
Molecular Structure of Fibrillin: How FBN Mutations |
|
Initiate Disease .............................................................................. |
179 |
Fibrillin Microfibrils: Mutations Result in Poorly Assembled |
|
Microfibrils and/or Microfibril Instability ..................................... |
181 |
Microfibrils and Morphogenesis: Effects of Fibrillin Mutations |
|
on Growth Factors ........................................................................ |
183 |
New Research Opportunities Relevant to the Marfan Syndrome ....... |
185 |
15. Insights into Fibrillin-1 Structure and Function |
|
from Domain Studies ......................................................................... |
188 |
Pat Whiteman and Penny A. Handford |
|
Structure of Fibrillin-1 Domains ....................................................... |
188 |
Calcium Binding Properties of Fibrillin-1 ......................................... |
191 |
Structural Consequences of FBN1 Mutations .................................... |
192 |
Correlation of Structural Studies with the Cellular Effects |
|
of Missense Mutations ................................................................... |
195 |
16. Genetics of Marfan Syndrome in Mouse Models ................................ |
199 |
Emilio Arteaga-Solis, Harry Dietz and Francesco Ramirez |
|
Elastic Fiber Composition and Assembly ........................................... |
199 |
Mouse Models of MFS ...................................................................... |
200 |
Instructive Roles of Microfibrils ........................................................ |
203 |
Perspectives ....................................................................................... |
205 |
Appendix: Marfan Syndrome Patient Organizations .......................... |
209 |
Index .................................................................................................. |
215 |
