Ehlers—Danlos syndrome type IV, the vascular type, results from mutations in the gene for type III procollagen ( COL3A1). Affected patients are at risk for arterial, bowel, and uterine rupture, but the timing of these events, their frequency, and the course of the disease are not well documented.
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