AGE-SPECIFIC DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUE FOR VARIOUS FORMS OF CONNECTIVE TISSUE DYSPLASIA SYNDROME

摘要

FIELD: medicine.;SUBSTANCE: known manifestations of connective tissue dysplasia (CTD) and additional reproductive manifestations of CTD are detected and rated to assign each CTD manifestation with certain points depending on the child's or adult's age. The derived points are summed up. If the total score exceeds a bottom limit for the respective age group, then a non-differentiated CTD syndrome is diagnosed. If the total score exceeds the bottom limit for the respective age group, then a differentiated CTD syndrome is diagnosed.;EFFECT: technique provides the objective differential diagnostics of various forms of CTD in any age group at the early stages of the disease that in turn enables the timely corrective therapy enabling the delay of CTD manifestations.;2 tbl, 12 ex