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Report of a Case

James L. McGraw, M.D.

Arch Ophthal. 1945;34(2):112-113.

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Since Marfan, in 1896, first described the case of a young girl with the symptom complex of arachnodactyly and ectopia lentis, there has appeared in the literature a sufficient number of similar cases so that this syndrome can no longer be placed among the rare diseases. The reported number of typical and atypical cases is now well above 200.

The present case is a typical instance of Marfan's syndrome, with some unusual complications.

The patient is the sixth child of normal, healthy parents and grandparents. The first child, a boy, died at the age of 6 years in a home for mentally deficient children. He was mentally defective, and was subject to convulsive seizures. He was said to have an enlarged thymus gland. There was no known ocular disease. The second child, a boy, died at the age of 15 months, after a renal infection. This child was believed to . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
New York

Footnotes
Read at a meeting of the New York Academy of Medicine, Section of Ophthalmology, April 16, 1945.

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