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Ehlers - Danlos Syndrome: case-report with glaucoma

SUMMARY

The Ehlers-Danlos syndrome comprises a group of alterations of the connective tissue with hereditary character, whose basic alteratians seem to involve the colagenous fibers. Ocular and systemic alterations are described. The authors relate a case of the Ehlers-Danlos syndrome that presented hyperelasticity of the eyelid, myopia, staphyloma, microcornea and glaucoma. The patient was submitted to a trabeculectomy with success.

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