Bet most of you dont know what this is?

I BET MOST OF YOU DONT KNOW WHAT MARFAN SYNDROME IS DONT CHEAT JUST SAY WAT YOU THINK IT IS

Marfan Syndrome... sounds like it's something petty, like biting your nails or getting white hair or something. Don't know though. It's probably going to turn out really deadly and I've just insulted everyone!

I just read Jake S's answer - the doctor, what on earth did that mean? How do normal people understand that?

In all honesty, I have no idea what it is!

genetic disorder - lincoln had it - as does someone I know. HA!

when you always ask silly impossible questions

It makes you tall and thin, I know that.
They think Honest Abe had it.

What is ut question again???

isn't it when your head is bigger than normal?

an addiction to fans that are made in mars?
nope? not a clue then! sorry

if you no wut it is then dont ask other people ok loser!!!!!!

disorder of collegen that gives heart vessels their strength

The Marfan syndrome is a connective tissue disorder. Connective tissue provides substance and support to tendons, ligaments, blood vessel walls, cartilage, heart valves and many other structures. In the Marfan syndrome, the chemical makeup of the connective tissue isn't normal. As a result, many of these structures aren't as stiff as they should be.

The Marfan syndrome is inherited and affects many parts of the body. There's no single conclusive test for diagnosing it, but people who have it often have many similar traits. Besides perhaps having heart problems, people with the Marfan syndrome are often tall and thin. They also may have slender, tapering fingers, long arms and legs, curvature of the spine and eye problems. Sometimes the Marfan syndrome is so mild that few (if any) symptoms exist. In the most severe cases, which are rare, life-threatening problems may occur at any age.

I have heard of it - does it have a common facial feature?

An inherited syndrome and the sufferers are usually are very tall with long arms and legs and have varying degrees of poor health as well.

giantism

Yes...it's a disorder similiar to 'Giants' syndrome (i forget the name now) an overactive part of their brain that makes them grow, these people are very tall, long spiderlike limbs, necks, fingers

It is a genetic dyclantion between the difubal extremities. Subsisting of the sub cranial tissues, adhering to the inner subquantination.

No idea of symptoms but didn't Abraham Lincoln have it?

its a place

I believe its a genetic problem that causes excessive height, hand and foot size etc with associated heart problems?

Marfan syndrome is a inherited disease( due to defect genes )of connective tissue.Because connective tissue is part of structure of all part of body,so it affect of many part of body;skeleton,eye,heart,vascular,bone,lu... etc.Some patient are very sick and some are mild and has no cure.yOU can obtain all detail in formations form Internet.

That's that thing that makes you really tall and with really long limbs. It is thought that the pharaoh Akhenaten may have suffered from this and his unusual statues show the typical symptoms. I think it can make your head elongated too. I don't think it is harmful and I think President Lincoln may have had it.

vicki,

Interesting. Why would you ask this?

Marfan's Syndrome is a genetic disease, usually inherited, but up to about 25 or 30% of cases arise with no family history to explain them. It's a mutation on a gene that codes for connective tissue and the production of elastin and fibrillin. The change in the gene reduces that production, and affects the skeletal structure such that persons with Marfan's often are tall, lanky, have an arched palate with crowded teeth, spinal curvature, and a condition called "arachnodactyly" or "spider fingers," because they are long and thin.

Another complication of it is aortic-valve regurgitation (which lowers the "ejection fraction" of the left ventricle and can lead to ventricular enlargement) and may or may not include mitral valve prolapse.