Four days before Baylor University basketball star Isaiah Austin would hear his name called in the NBA draft in June, a routine physical revealed that he had a genetic disorder called Marfan syndrome.

There's a 50 percent chance that baby Kennedy will also have Marfan, but she won't be tested for a while. As for Asia, even after delivery things could have happened with sudden changes in blood, ...

The first time Kendall and Cristin Langford had ever heard about Marfan syndrome, which affects one in 5,000 people, was when their third child was born.

A 3040 gram infant was born at 37 weeks to an 18 year old gravida 1, para 0 mother. The pregnancy was complicated by maternal Marfan syndrome and by abnormal maternal fetal sonogram.

Marfan syndrome in the neonatal age represents a severe early and commonly lethal manifestation of Marfan syndrome, which is caused by mutations in the gene encoding fibrillin-1 (FBN1). Here, we ...

At 21, Marfan syndrome patient exceeds life-span expectations. ABC News. Video. Live. Shows. Shop. ... Then the nurses began consoling her, quite sure her baby would die before he left the hospital.

At 27, she lives with Marfan syndrome, a genetic disorder that affects the connective tissues that hold organs in place. Leer en español An eye appointment as a teenager led to the diagnosis.