Contribution à l'épidémiologie du syndrome d'Ehlers-Danlos

The Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, genetic disorder of connective tissue, remains virtually unknown to the practitioners. It follows a number of diagnostic errors prejudicial to these fragile patients, vulnerable to bleeding and tissue damage. One of the diagnoses, often wrongly, is that of fibromyalgia. A survey was conducted on 2600 cases filed by individuals with disabilities to the French County Office for Disabled persons in Essonne near Paris. It contains 2% of cases of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome for which, in 80% of cases, the diagnosis of fibromyalgia was made, but never that of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, which was nevertheless evident. It is therefore necessary to increase awareness of the Ehlers-Danlos syndrome and to discuss it systematically when a fibromyalgia syndrome is evocated.