To meet the diagnostic criteria for kEDS, a person must meet: Major criterion 1 AND major criterion 2 AND major criterion 3 OR Major criterion 1 AND major criterion 2 AND three minor criteria (general or gene-specific) Major Criteria Congenital muscle hypotonia Congenital or early onset kyphoscoliosis (progressive or non-progressive) Generalized joint hypermobility with dislocations/subluxations (shoulders, hips, and knees in particular) Minor Criteria Skin hyperextensibility Easily bruisable skin Rupture/aneurysm of a medium-sized artery Osteopenia/osteoporosis Blue sclerae Hernia (umbilical or inguinal) Pectus deformity Marfanoid habitus Talipes equinovarus Refractive errors (myopia, hypermetropia) Gene-Specific Minor Criteria PLOD1 Skin fragility (easy bruising, friable skin, poor wound healing, widened atrophic scarring) Scleral and ocular fragility/rupture Microcornea Facial dysmorphology FKBP14 Congenital hearing impairment (sensorineural, conductive, or mixed) Follicular hyperkeratosis Muscle atrophy Bladder diverticula Musculocontractural EDS (mcEDS) If a person meets the diagnostic criteria for mcEDS, genetic testing should be done to confirm the diagnosis
Doctors often recommend it as part of long-term therapy for patients who have absorption problems or cannot maintain sufficient B12 through diet alone
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However, in resistant patients, oxidative stress causes a conformational change in Keap1, leading to the release of NRF2, which translocates to the nucleus and binds to antioxidant response element (ARE), activating the expression of downstream antioxidant genes, including GPX4, NQO1, HO-1 and SOD1 [33], and promoting the synthesis of GSH, as illustrated in Fig
