American Journal of Medical Genetics
Lara Bloom first author on 'The International Consortium on the Ehlers–Danlos Syndromes', published in the American Journal of Medical Genetics on 17th March 2017.
The American Journal of Medical Genetics publishes new research on the Ehlers-Danlos syndromes.
The Ehlers-Danlos Society, representing a recently formed international consortium of over 90 experts on the Ehlers-Danlos syndromes, releases the culmination of two years of review. This publication clarifies the bases for the diagnosis of and updates the descriptions of more than a dozen different types of the Ehlers-Danlos syndromes. This long-awaited review updates the diagnostic criteria for the first time in 20 years, and provides management and care guidelines. It also introduces the newly-described hypermobility spectrum disorders.