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Dermatology

Heritable Disorders of Connective Tissue

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  1. 01

    Overview

    • What this topic covers
    • The skin's scaffolding: collagen and elastic fibers
    • Three main heritable connective tissue disorders
    • Where these fit among genetic connective tissue diseases

    4 slides

  2. 02

    Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome

    A group of collagen disorders causing fragile, hyperextensible skin

    • Key features
    • History
    • How EDS classification has evolved
    • How common is EDS
    • Collagen: the body's main structural protein
    • Collagen biosynthesis, secretion, and fibril assembly
    • Two ways a collagen mutation causes disease
    • Dominant-negative mutations
    • Haploinsufficiency
    • Vascular EDS: type III collagen
    • Classical EDS: type V collagen
    • Arthrochalasia and dermatosparaxis EDS
    • Kyphoscoliotic EDS
    • Rarer EDS subtypes: other mechanisms
    • General skin findings across EDS
    • Clinical features of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome
    • Atrophic scar in classical EDS
    • Molluscoid pseudotumors on the knees
    • Classical EDS
    • Hypermobile EDS
    • Vascular EDS
    • Typical facial features of vascular EDS
    • Rarer EDS subtypes: clinical picture
    • Extensive bruising in dermatosparaxis EDS
    • The 2017 EDS classification
    • 2017 International classification of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome
    • 2017 International classification of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (continued)
    • 2017 International classification of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (continued)
    • 2017 International classification of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (continued)
    • 2017 International classification of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (continued)
    • 2017 International classification of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (continued) (continued)
    • Approach to the patient with presumed Ehlers-Danlos syndrome
    • Screening for joint hypermobility
    • Five-point joint hypermobility questionnaire
    • Pathology and laboratory findings
    • Telling EDS apart from look-alikes
    • EDS versus Marfan syndrome, side by side
    • Comparison of selected clinical features in Ehlers-Danlos syndrome and Marfan syndrome
    • Comparison of selected clinical features in Ehlers-Danlos syndrome and Marfan syndrome (continued)
    • General treatment: protecting the skin
    • Vascular EDS: managing the biggest risks

    41 slides

  3. 03

    Pseudoxanthoma Elasticum

    Calcified elastic fibers in the skin, eyes, and blood vessels

    • Key features
    • History
    • Who gets PXE
    • ABCC6: the liver pump behind PXE
    • Impaired inhibition of ectopic mineralization in pseudoxanthoma elasticum
    • From ABCC6 loss to calcified tissue
    • Related PPi deficiency disorders
    • Surviving infants with ENPP1 mutations
    • The classic skin change: 'cobblestone' plaques
    • Clinical features of pseudoxanthoma elasticum
    • PXE plaques in the antecubital fossa and neck
    • When calcification advances
    • Mucosal lesions
    • Mucosal lesions of pseudoxanthoma elasticum
    • A second example of mucosal PXE
    • Angioid streaks: the classic eye finding
    • Funduscopic findings in pseudoxanthoma elasticum
    • Other ocular clues
    • Cardiovascular involvement
    • The GGCX phenotype
    • Histology: seeing the calcium
    • Histopathology of pseudoxanthoma elasticum
    • Diseases that mimic PXE skin lesions
    • Differential diagnosis of pseudoxanthoma elasticum
    • Differential diagnosis of pseudoxanthoma elasticum (continued)
    • Differential diagnosis of pseudoxanthoma elasticum (continued)
    • Drug- and disease-related look-alikes
    • Diagnostic criteria for PXE
    • Proposed diagnostic criteria for pseudoxanthoma elasticum (2014)
    • Proposed diagnostic criteria for pseudoxanthoma elasticum (2014) (continued)
    • Proposed diagnostic criteria for pseudoxanthoma elasticum (2014) (continued)
    • Managing PXE takes a team
    • A multidisciplinary approach to management of pseudoxanthoma elasticum
    • A multidisciplinary approach to management of pseudoxanthoma elasticum (continued)
    • A multidisciplinary approach to management of pseudoxanthoma elasticum (continued)
    • Treatments under investigation

    36 slides

  4. 04

    Cutis Laxa

    Loose, sagging skin from sparse or broken elastic fibers

    • Key features
    • History
    • Who gets cutis laxa
    • Elastin gene mutations: the dominant form
    • Autosomal recessive cutis laxa: structural genes
    • Autosomal recessive cutis laxa: metabolic genes
    • Two broad mechanisms behind cutis laxa
    • Acquired cutis laxa: breaking down existing fibers
    • D-penicillamine: a drug that blocks elastin repair
    • The full spectrum of heritable cutis laxa
    • Heritable forms of cutis laxa and related conditions
    • Heritable forms of cutis laxa and related conditions (continued)
    • Heritable forms of cutis laxa and related conditions (continued)
    • Heritable forms of cutis laxa and related conditions (continued)
    • Heritable forms of cutis laxa and related conditions (continued) (continued)
    • Heritable forms of cutis laxa and related conditions (continued) (continued)
    • Heritable forms of cutis laxa and related conditions (continued)
    • Heritable forms of cutis laxa and related conditions (continued) (continued)
    • Heritable forms of cutis laxa and related conditions (continued) (continued)
    • The look of cutis laxa
    • Clinical features in cutis laxa
    • Acral cutis laxa
    • Idiopathic acral localized acquired cutis laxa
    • What can trigger acquired cutis laxa
    • Acquired cutis laxa: associated conditions
    • Acquired cutis laxa: associated conditions (continued)
    • Acquired cutis laxa: associated conditions (continued)
    • Marshall syndrome and localized forms
    • The 'Michelin tire baby' -- a look-alike, not true CL
    • 'Michelin tire baby' phenotype
    • Pathology of cutis laxa
    • Histologic features of cutis laxa
    • Telling cutis laxa apart from its mimics
    • Treatment

    34 slides

  5. 05

    Other Heritable Disorders of the ECM

    Marfan syndrome, homocystinuria, osteogenesis imperfecta, and Buschke-Ollendorff syndrome

    • Beyond EDS, PXE, and cutis laxa
    • Additional heritable disorders of connective tissue with cutaneous findings
    • Additional heritable disorders of connective tissue with cutaneous findings (continued)
    • Additional heritable disorders of connective tissue with cutaneous findings (continued)
    • Additional heritable disorders of connective tissue with cutaneous findings (continued)
    • Quick distinguishing notes

    6 slides

  6. 06

    Putting It Together

    How to recognize and separate these connective tissue disorders

    • Quick clinical clues
    • Quick mechanism clues
    • Why this chapter matters
    • References
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    • References (continued 11/12)
    • References (continued 12/12)
    • Dermatology, 5th Edition (2-Volume Set)

    16 slides