Sudden death associated to vascular Ehlers–Danlos syndrome. A case report

This article describes the case of a sudden death in a 45-year-old female consecutive to acute and extensive arterial dissection in a context of Ehlers–Danlos syndrome type IV. The interest of this case report is that autopsy findings led to the suspicion of a clinical diagnosis prompting as carrying out a genetic testing which definitively confirms the diagnosis, opening the way to genetic council for family members. Criteria for this disease...