HCM CITY — Doctors at Trưng Vương Hospital in HCM City have performed their first ever surgery to reduce the curvature in the spine of a patient with Marfan syndrome. They said the patient, a 15-year-old girl, suffered from scoliosis caused by the syndrome, a genetic disorder affecting connective tissues which play an important role in the body’s growth. According to the patient, she had been diagnosed with scoliosis during a routine health examination at school when she was 13. Nearly 1 in 5,000 people around the world have Marfan syndrome, but there are no official statistics on its incidence in the country, he said. This makes it very important for people with Marfan syndrome and related disorders to be diagnosed accurately and early and treated, it said.

Source: Viet Nam News October 04, 2017 23:03 UTC