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Post  Patti Thu Jul 12, 2012 11:00 pm

I posted here because it appeared that you were working on a way of observing Marfan's from hand features. This particular feature, a measurement, is another feature that can be observed without having to make contact with the hands. This is the same person I mentioned earlier in this thread.

In addition to her unusual height, taller than the men at the event, her fingers have extra ceases, which is another feature you have listed.

She also has other not so common features that can be found with syndromes such as radial loops on the ring fingers and at least one Sydney line, if not two.

I think her left hand is pretty close to being accurately viewed as you see it. If anything, the middle finger might be a little longer as it may be ever so slightly flexed.
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Post  Martijn (admin) Fri Jul 13, 2012 11:07 am


Hi Patti,

Thank you for explaining.

I think the hands of this woman actually present a few contra-indications regarding Marfan syndrome, e.g. her wrists are above average wide (see especially her left wrist); and though her finger length is slightly long, it's not outside the normal range and I am not sure that the width of her fingers can be described as slender (I would say normal relative to finger length).

By the way, I don't see the head lines (clearly) reaching the side of the palm - so I would prefer to speak of long head lines, not Sydney lines.

And regarding tall body length, there is an additional requirement before it can be associated with Marfan syndrome: body height is required to exceed the body height of family members - including the males. So, tall body height compared to other males is not a key-feature in Marfan syndrome.


Patti, I am not sure that she would score any points at all on the Marfan syndrome hand test. The photo nor your description do not provide a basis to assume that she would for sure score points.

Beyond the minor feature that you mentioned (extra interphalangeal crease), I am not sure that I can add much more to the list of hand features that could point in the direction of Marfan syndrome. Only her right hand does appear to have a long finger length index - possibly even high enough to classify for dolichodactyly according this index (though I think we sort of agree that her right hand fingers likely may look a little longer on the photo). But I think these features are sort of neutralized by the contra-indicators that I mentioned above.

Therefore, based on your info so far, I think this woman very likely does not have Marfan syndrome. Thank you for your efforts to discuss the details!
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Post  Patti Fri Jul 13, 2012 4:02 pm

Thanks!

I didn't see your information about the size of the wrists, I'll go back and check.

The head line in her right hand definitely goes to the edge of her palm. Clearer in my higher quality close ups of the palm. The only question as to the left hand is the fragmented sections that take it to the edge.

Well, anyway.. thanks for taking a look. Seems then like there's not much reason to bother to look for Marfan's in the general population by those of us reading hands in the public.
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Post  Martijn (admin) Fri Jul 13, 2012 11:10 pm


Patti... sorry, so far I had not mentioned anything specific related to the wrist (beyond the 'wrist sign' that is included in the Marfan syndrome hand test).

The things is, what is very likely essential here is that Marfan syndrome is typically featured with a tendency for the limbs to manifest with long + narrow dimensions (technically this phenomenon is known as 'dolichostenomelia'). I hope this explains enough why I started pointing out to the size of wrist (I think it is probably wider than the wrist size of the average hand).


Regarding your final comment, we should be aware here that Marfan syndrome is found in only about 1 in 5000 persons. So it is probably wise to focus on the most important key-aspects only (extra-phalangeal crease & sydney lines would become quite irrelevant regarding Marfan syndrome when no key-aspects for Marfan syndrome are present at all). Just like a simian line would become irrelevant for Down syndrome in a person who has a 'water hand shape'.

As soon as you start understanding the key-aspects regarding the hand in Marfan syndrome (see the 10 hand features included in the Marfan syndrome hand test) it should become relatively easy to recognize Marfan syndrome from the hand (and to spot contra-indicators, etc.). Though it might take first also a study of a few Marfan hands by detail.

So, if you would meet that woman again... I would recommend to start use it as a nice opportunity to see if she can do the 'thumb sign' and/or 'wrist sign', plus the other sign related to skin flexibility & mobility.

(Again, I would not be surprized at all if she would not qualify for any of those signs (because of the contra-indicators that I mentioned)

I hope this now makes sense?


PS. I have just update the picture: the picture now describes much more clearly how to use finger length for recognizing Marfan syndrome. Basically, a 'finger length index' above 0.48 is required (notice: you assumed that the finger length for the left hand of the woman is probably very close to it's real length - I found a 'finger length index' score of 0.452 for that hand: clearly above average... but quite far away from the 'dolichodactyly' criterium). The right hand is probably much more close to meeting the criterium, but since the fingers probably appear as too long on the photo... it is very hard to say how close the left 3th finger approaches the criterium.
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Post  Martijn (admin) Mon Oct 15, 2012 2:38 pm

Martijn (admin) wrote:
Hello Felicity,

That's a nice question!

I did a little bit of litererature research on that, and it is interesting to see that these people generally are able to live a happy life, with normal levels of the traits depression and anxiety; but they do tend to develop an introverted personality.

See the quotes from two studies below:


Psychosocial adaptation in adolescents and young adults with Marfan syndrome: an exploratory study.

http://jmg.bmj.com/content/35/5/405.abstract

"Most patients emphasised the need for accurate information about the illness immediately after knowing the diagnosis and all found psychological support helpful. Depression and anxiety levels were higher in the female than in the male group, without being significantly different from the normal population. Nevertheless, most patients have come to terms with their disease and consider themselves happy most of the time."


Determinants of Quality of Life in Marfan Syndrome

http://psy.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/49/3/243

"In line with these arguments, we found a number of studies indicating that MFS imposes a burden on daily life; in particular, on school attendance; on work opportunities and social behavior; and on the development of an introverted personality, with associated defensive psychological traits, such as denial and isolation."


Obviously... and introverted personality is also associated with a water-hand. But I also think that the 'water hand' is the most vulnerable hand type of all, and generally they tend to be more sensitive for negative emotions (including: depression, anxiety).

But I also think that people with Marfan syndrome tend to have a more 'happy' personality type than one can generally observe in the water hand.

Hopefully, this answers your excellent question... wave

... Above I mentioned that studies have pointed out that Marfan people tend 'to develop an introverted personality'.

Interestingly, my recent Extraversion-study (not related to Marfan syndrome) has pointed out that introverts tend to have hands characterised by e.g.: longer fingers and a narrower palm.

This creates a clear pattern of similarities: introverts & Marfan people have similar-like hand characteristics.


Pretty fascinating... the combination of both examples appears clear confirming evidence that Sheldon's ectomorph somatotype indeed correlates with at least some personality traits (Sheldon mentioned for the ectomorph type: inhibited, introverted, hypersensitive to pain, and secretive).


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Post  Martijn (admin) Tue Jul 16, 2013 10:21 am

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Arachnodactyly in Marfan syndrome can be measured through the so-called 'metacarpal index' for the hand; two methods are described in this article:
http://www.e-radiography.net/radpath/a/arachnodactyly.htm


Quote from the article:

"When arachnodactyly is subtle, the metacarpal index can be determined by dividing the length of each of the last four metacarpals by the width of its midpoint and averaging the values. Marfan's patients are often grater than 8.4, while normals are less than 8."
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The following quick summary describes the most significant hand signs in Marfan syndrome (taken from the article presented at the bottom of this post):

"• [22]: M-s = Marfan syndrome:

Summary of the most significant hand signs in Marfan syndrome:

- Hand level 2: camptodactly (contractures in the fingers) & hyperextensible finger joints are often present.

- Hand level 3: long, large hands are typical.

- Hand level 5: arachnodactyly - a.k.a. spider-like fingers - is very often present, manifesting as a positive 'thumb sign' (= Steinberg sign) and/or a positive 'wrist sign' (= Walker-Murdoch sign); finger length is typically long relative to palm with (+ often also slightly long relative to palm length); tapering fingers are also often present.

- Hand level 7: hyperconvex / narrow nails [dolichonychia] is often present.

- Hand level 9: extra interphalangeal creases may be present."



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