Vascular Ehlers-Danlos

Vascular Ehlers-Danlos

Vascular Ehlers-Danlos (VEDS) syndrome is a severe autosomal, dominant, genetic, connective tissue disorder. Connective tissue holds all the body’s cells, organs, and tissue together.

VEDS is caused by mutations in the COL3A1 gene that tells the body how to make type Ill collagen, which is a major component of the vasculature and hollow organs.

People living with VEDS often experience frequent and unexplained bruising, and thin and translucent skin. Most people living with VEDS will experience severe life-altering, and life-threatening complications such as gastrointestinal perforations, spontaneous aorta or arterial tears, dissections or ruptures, and spontaneous pneumothorax, all of which can be fatal.