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Table 1 Major and minor clinical criteria in EDS (adapted from) [14]

From: A floppy infant without lingual frenulum and kyphoscoliosis: Ehlers Danlos syndrome case report

Major criteria

Minor criteria

Gene- specific minor criteria

 

• Skin hyperextensibility

PLOD1

 

• Easy bruisable skin

• Skin fragility

• Congenital muscle hypotonia

• Rupture/aneurysm of a medium-sized artery

• Scleral and ocular fragility/rupture

 

• Osteopenia/osteoporosis

• Microcornea

• Congenital or early onset kyphoscoliosis

• Blue sclerae

FKBP14

 

• Hernia (umbilical or inguinal)

• Congenital hearing impairment

• General Joint Hypermobolity

• Pectus deformity

• Follicular hyperkeratosis

 

• Marfanoid habitus

• Muscle atrophy

 

• Talipes equinovarus

• Bladder diverticula

 

• Refractive error (myopia, hypermetropia)