TY - JOUR AU - Iamze Taboridze AU - Lali Aladashvili AU - Irakli Vardzukashvili PY - 2017/01/04 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Surgical Treatment of Scoliosis in Marfan Syndrome: A Case Report JF - European Scientific Journal, ESJ JA - ESJ VL - 12 IS - 10 SE - Articles DO - 10.19044/esj.2016.v12n10p%p UR - https://eujournal.org/index.php/esj/article/view/8587 AB - Marfan syndrome (MFS) is a connective tissue disorder of variable inheritance that affects multiple organ systems. Scoliosis affects around 60% of Marfan patients and may progress rapidly during growth spurts, leading to marked deformity, pain and restricted ventilatory deficit. The purpose of this paper is to describe a 13-year-old female patient with Marfan syndrome and surgical treatment of scoliosis. The results indicate that posterior-only surgery with instrumented fixation and fusion is effective and safe for the treatment of scoliosis in selected patients with Marfan syndrome. ER -