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X-linked cardiac valvular dysplasia

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A heart valve disease characterized by multivalvular dysplasia and regurgitation with more severe phenotypes in hemizygous males compared to heterozygous females that has_material_basis_in mutation in the FLNA gene on chromosome Xq28.

Signs and symptoms

  • Mitral regurgitation
  • Aortic regurgitation
  • Mitral valve prolapse
  • Tricuspid regurgitation
  • Short chordae tendineae of the mitral valve
  • Abnormality of metabolism/homeostasis
  • Short chordae tendineae of the tricuspid valve
  • Congestive heart failure
  • Joint stiffness
  • Joint hypermobility

Also known as: CVD1; Dystrophie valvulaire associee a FLNA; EDS5; Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, type 5; FLNA-related X-linked myxomatous valvular dysplasia