Description of the disease * EnglishPolish Pobierz sekcję do PDF Definicja A rare systemic disease for which two subtypes exist, either related to the gene <i>PLOD1</i> or <i>FKBP22</i>, and for which the clinically overlapping characteristics include congenital muscle hypotonia, congenital or early-onset kyphoscoliosis (progressive or non-progressive), and generalized joint hypermobility with dislocations/subluxations (in particular of the shoulders, hips, and knees). Additional features which may occur in both subtypes are skin hyperextensibility, easy bruising of the skin, rupture/aneurysm of a medium-sized artery, osteopenia/osteoporosis, blue sclerae, umbilical or inguinal hernia, chest deformity, marfanoid habitus, talipes equinovarus, and refractive errors. Gene-specific features, with variable presentation, are additionally observed in each subtype. Disease data Klasyfikacja Disease Synonimy EDS VI Ehlers-Danlos syndrome type 6 Ehlers-Danlos syndrome type 6 Kyphoscoliotic EDS kEDS Kod ORPHA 536545 Kod OMIM - Kod ICD10 Q79.6 Kod ICD11 - *Soruce Extended description of the disease Pobierz sekcję do PDF No additional description. Orphanet - interntowa baza danych dotyczących rzadkich chorób i sierochych leków. ©INSERM 1999 - Dostępna na stronie www.orphanet.pl