title: Neonatal marfan syndrome: report of two cases.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Neonatal Marfan syndrome is a rare and severe phenotype of this disease. A poor prognosis is anticipated due to the high probability of congestive heart failure, and mitral and tricuspid regurgitations with suboptimal response to medical therapy and difficulties in surgical management at an early age.
  
  
  METHODS
  We present two consecutive patients with this disease who are the first reported cases from Iran to the best of our knowledge. Unfortunately both of them died shortly after diagnosis.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Neonatal Marfan syndrome is reported from Iran and has a poor prognosis like the patients reported from elsewhere.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
authors.forename: Yazdan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ghandi
authors.forename: Keyhan S
authors.initials: KS
authors.lastname: Zanjani
authors.forename: Seyed-Eshagh
authors.initials: SE
authors.lastname: Mazhari-Mousavi
authors.forename: Nima
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Parvaneh
keywords: Congestive Heart Failure; Ghent Criteria; Marfan Syndrome; Neonate
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