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Figure 1.

View larger version (87K): [in this window] [in a new window]   Figure 1. The thumbs protrude from the clenched fists of a 24-year-old man who presented with congestive heart failure due to severe chronic aortic regurgitation and left ventricular dysfunction. Arachnodactyly ("spider finger") and loose joints account for the ability to position the fingers in this way. The patient also had other skeletal features of Marfan's syndrome, including pectus excavatum and a high-arched palate.

 

Rodney H. Falk, M.D.
Boston University School of Medicine
Boston, MA 02118

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