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Reply To: Skin biopsy: indifferent diagnosis

NEW STUDY! Parasym Plus™ for Multiple Sclerosis › Forums › PrettyIll.com Discussion › Skin › Skin biopsy: indifferent diagnosis › Reply To: Skin biopsy: indifferent diagnosis

June 27, 2016 at 9:09 pm #5970
Dr. Diana
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I’m one of those, Nici! In most cases, we do not have vascular EDS (I would think you would show the signs if you did, honestly). I have a suspicion that SOME aspect of connective tissue is affected, but no one can know with certainty what is affected (elastin, collagen, fibrillin, microfibrillin, tenascin X, etc). Genetic tests are currently unable to differentiate, but our skin biopsies show something is amiss with the connective tissue. I think *most* of us fall into this group.

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