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© 1996 British Society for Rheumatology

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EXTRA-ARTICULAR FEATURES OF BENIGN JOINT HYPERMOBILITY SYNDROME

M. B. MISHRA, P. RYAN, P. ATKINSON, H. TAYLOR, J. BELL, D. CALVER, L. FOGELMAN, A. CHILD, G. JACKSON, J. B. CHAMBERS and R. GRAHAME

Departments of Cardiology, Nuclear Medicine, Ophthalmology and Rheumatology, Guy's Hospital London

Correspondence to: Correspondence to: R. Grahame, Department of Rheumatology, Guy's Hospital, St Thomas' Street, London SE1 9RT.

To define the phenotype of patients with benign joint hypermobility syndrome (BJHS), we studied 58 consecutive patients (mean age 37 yr) presenting to a rheumatology clinic and 30 controls. Patients underwent rheumatological and ophthalmic examination, hypermobility scoring, echocardiography, measurement of bone mineral density (BMD), and skin thickness, elasticity and light transmissibility. The median hypermobility score was 5/9 Beighton and 31/56 Contompasis. Eighteen (31%) patients complained of significant arthralgia. Six (10%) patients and two (7%) controls had mitral valve prolapse (MVP) (x2 = 0.27, P = NS). Neither MVP nor aortic diameters showed a correlation with hypermobility score. There was no significant reduction in BMD. There was a significant correlation between hypermobility and light transmissibility of the skin (r = 0.71, P < 0.0001 Contompasis; r = 0.47, P < 0.05 Beighton) and skin stretchiness (r = 0.49, P < 0.05 Contompasis; r = 0.39, P < 0.05 Beighton). On ophthalmic examination, 14 (41%) patients had upper eyelid laxity. Thus, patients with BJHS do not have an increased prevalence of significant cardiac, bone, skin or eye abnormalities, helping differentiate BJHS from other more serious hereditary disorders of connective tissue.

KEY WORDS: Joint hypermobility, Echocardiography, Skin measurements, Ophthalmic examination, Bone density


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