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Professor Claude Hamonet's Website - SE... and Access To Diagnosis Questionnaire
Professor Claude Hamonet's Website - SE... and Access To Diagnosis Questionnaire
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Suspicion of EhlersDanlos syndrome / disease
Questionnaire for guidance and access to diagnosis to be completed by the
patient and his entourage
Warning
This questionnaire is intended primarily for patients to help them better orient their doctor (s)
towards diagnosis.
The diversity and the multiplicity of the symptoms very often make the exchange with the
doctor, generally little informed on this syndrome, difficult. The objective here is to select the
manifestations most often encountered and, therefore, the most significant to guide it. The
difficulty of dialogue with the physician is that often his notions of the syndrome are reduced to
two " historical " signs but inconstant (especially the first): excessive stretchability of the skin
and hypermobility of the joints.
The answers must be short (yes, no) because the questions are of the socalled " closed "
type. More rarely, a comment is judicious. At the end of the questionnaire a large space is
reserved for the free comments.
Introduction
EhlersDanlos disease, described for the first time by Ehlers on 15 December 1900 in
Copenhagen , finds its identity in a (thus familial) genetic attack of the collagenous
tissue (there are at least 29 types) in a way, the cement of connective tissue fibers
(about 80% of the constituents of the body including teeth, bone, bladder, stomach,
bronchi, and lungs). This probably explains the diversity of clinical manifestations
encountered in this disease. It is, on the other hand, a diagnostic argument of weight
expressing the fact that there is a common trait between these symptoms (here the
alterations of the connective tissue that are found in all organs of the body).
Many of the observed manifestations are the direct expression of the physical
peculiarities of the connective tissues (fragility, excessive flexibility, loss of elasticity)
this is the case for the skin. In fact, two dermatologists have given their name to this
disease. On the other hand, other symptoms are very often observed and very disabling
(fatigue, migraines, difficulties of memory or attention, sleep, involuntary movements
entering the clinical setting that the physicians have called " dystonia ") appear as
consequences indirect , which must be related to the syndrome because of their high
frequency in patients with formal signs of EhlersDanlos syndrome. There is an
explanation for how to deal with them better. The psychosomatic (" it's in the head ") is
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not enough. The iron deficiency (due to bleeding), the deficit in vitamin D (due to the
lack of synthesis in the skin) are ways forward but there are others to discover.
Three factors , according to our clinical observations on more than 1,500 cases,
strongly influence the expression of symptoms: female hormones (manifestations are
more marked in women), trauma (obvious aggravation after a road accident) and
Climatology (very beneficial effect of hot and dry weather).
There is no genetic, histological or biological test to formally confirm the existence of
EhlersDanlos disease. The diagnosis is strictly based on clinical manifestations ,
the grouping of which makes it possible to affirm with certainty this diagnosis based on
the presence of identical (even incomplete) cases in the family. These incomplete forms
are the most frequent and can be diagnosed because there is at least a complete "
typical " form in this family.
Four other points should be noted; They help to consolidate the diagnosis rather than
destroy it, as is too often the case: the great variability of the symptoms , in the same
person, the negativity of the explorations of imagery (MRI) contrasting with the
intensity of the painful manifestations (Abdomen, joints), great variability from person to
person in the same family (even in twins), the unpredictable nature of the evolution
that does not always occur in the direction of aggravation, even Under the effects of age.
Survey
Name: ................................................ .................................................. ..............
First name: ................................................ .................................................. ........
Sex: M F
Birth date :.............................................. ..........................................
Weight: ............... kg Size: ............... cm Lateralization: left right
Social Activity: ............................................... ...............................................
Address :................................................ .................................................. .......
.................................................. .................................................. ......................
Telephone (s): ............................................. .................................................. ..
Email: ................................................ .................................................. ........
In childhood
1. Did you frequently:
"... otitis?" Yes no
... of angina / sinusitis? Yes no
... bronchitis? Yes no
... asthma attacks? Yes no
... sprains? Yes no
... bruising? Yes no
Nose bleeds? Yes no
... wounds (knees, forehead, hands, others ...)? Yes no
... migraines? Yes no
2 Did you have very severe stomach ache? Yes no
Were you constipated? Yes no
3. Were you breathless (climbing stairs in particular)? Yes no
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Were you often tired? Yes no
4. Were you awkward (hitting the door frames, table corners, dropping
objects, tripping, falling ...)? Yes no
5. Did you have any academic difficulties? Yes no
Were you easily distracted? Yes no
6. Were you cold on your feet (and / or hands, nose, ears)? Yes no
7. Did you have joint pain (shoulders, wrists, hands, knees ...)? Yes no
8. Were you very flexible (putting one foot behind the head, sucking his
big toe, making a big gap)? Yes no
antecedents
1. At what age did the symptoms become more pronounced and became
troublesome (disabling)? ______ years
2 Have you had one or more significant accidental injuries
(falls, sports accidents, public road accidents)? Yes no
Of what sort? (Specify)
At what age (s)?
Were symptoms accentuated after the accident (s)? Yes no
3. What are the medical diagnoses that were made or evoked before the
suspicion of EhlersDanlos disease?
4. Have you undergone surgery? Yes no
If yes, please detail the interventions with the dates:
Yes no
5. Are there other people in your family who have
similar manifestations to yours? Yes no
If so, who?
6. Other information you want to provide:
Current data
1. pains
1.1. Do you have frequent pain around the joints (back, shoulders, Yes no
elbows, hands, knees, feet)?
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1.2. Do you have pain (cramps, twists, "tears" ...) in your muscles (neck
muscles, thighs, calves, hands, feet)? Yes no
1.3. Do you have severe pain (seizures) in the abdomen? Yes no
1.4. Do you have pain in the ribs? Yes no
1.5. Is your skin very sensitive? Yes no
1.6. Are your periods very painful? Yes no
1.7. Do you have migraines? Yes no
Circumstances of occurrence of pain:
How do you relieve them?
2. Tired
2.1. Are you often tired? Yes no
2.2. Do you really want to sleep during the day? Yes no
3. Sleep
3.1. Do you have difficulty falling asleep? Yes no
3.2. Do you often wake up in the night? Yes no
3.3. Are you restless during your sleep? Yes no
3.4. Are you tired when you wake up? Yes no
4. Mobility Movement control
4.1. Do you feel dizzy (being drawn forward, backward, sideways or
turning, or feeling around you, the setting turns or tilts), when you move
from lying down to Standing or when you bend your head? Yes no
4.2. Do you have unintended sudden movements ("jerks")? Yes no
4.3. Do you have tremors? Yes no
4.4. Do you have jerks in your legs when you fall asleep? Yes no
4.5. Do you have muscle twitching (face, thighs ...)? Yes no
4.6. Do you often twist your ankles, your fingers, your knees? Yes no
4.7. Do you have joint cracking? Yes no
4.8. Do you have joint blockages? (Back, neck, limbs, jaws ...) Yes no
4.9. Do you have joint dislocations? (Shoulders, elbows, wrists, fingers,
jaws ...) Yes no
4.10. Are you clumsy (hitting the corner or hanging the door handles,
furniture corners, dropping objects)? Yes no
4.11. Do you have difficulty raising your arms? Yes no
4.12. Do you have difficulties writing? Yes no
4.13. Do you have difficulty standing up? Yes no
4.14. Do you have difficulty sitting still? Yes no
4.15. Do you have difficulty getting up? Yes no
4.16. Do you have difficulty walking? Yes no
4.17. Avezvous des difficultés à courir ? oui non
4.18. Faitesvous des chutes ? oui non
4.19. Avezvous des difficultés à vous coiffer ? oui non
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4.20. Avezvous des difficultés à mettre vos vêtements ? oui non
4.21. Avezvous des difficultés à couper du pain ? oui non
4.22. Avezvous des difficultés à vous verser à boire ? oui non
4.23. Vos articulations sontelles très mobiles (retournement du petit
doigt, hyperextension des coudes et des genoux, mobilité excessives
des épaules…) ? oui non
5. La peau
5.1. Estelle fine, transparente (on voit bien les petites veines à
travers elle) ? oui non
5.2. Estelle douce au touché (« peau de bébé », veloutée) ? oui non
5.3. Estelle fragile (facilement écorchée, cicatrisant mal, siège de
vergetures précoces –enfance ou nombreuses, étirable au niveau du
cou ou du visage) ? oui non
6. Les saignements
6.1. Avezvous des ecchymoses (« bleus », « marques »)
facilement, au moindre choc ? oui non
6.2. Avezvous des saignements de nez abondants et fréquents ? oui non
6.3. Saignezvous des gencives lors du brossage des dents ? oui non
6.4. Les règles sontelles abondantes ? oui non
6.5. Les plaies saignentelles beaucoup et longtemps ? oui non
6.6. Les veines sontelles fragiles lors des prises de sang avec
constitution d’ecchymoses importantes ? (« signe de Miget ») ? oui non
7. Réactions aberrantes du système végétatif (« dysautonomie »)
7.1. Êtesvous frileux(se) ? oui non
7.2. Avezvous des sudations importantes (crises de sueur la nuit
au niveau de la tête et du haut du corps, mains moites et sudation des
pieds, des aisselles) ? oui non
7.3. Avezvous des poussées de température, même en l’absence
d’infection ? oui non
7.4. Avezvous des « bouffées de chaleur » ? oui non
7.5. Avezvous les pieds (les mains, le nez, les oreilles) froids ? oui non
7.6. Avezvous des accélérations du pouls (palpitations) ? (au
repos, le pouls peutêtre à 40 ou à 50) oui non
7.7. Avezvous une tension artérielle basse ? oui non
7.8. Avezvous des étourdissements ou même de brèves pertes de
connaissance si vous vous levez d’un siège ou d’un lit ? oui non
8. Tube digestif, abdomen
8.1. Allezvous à la selle tous les jours ? oui non
Si non, tous les __________ jours.
8.2. Êtesvous ballonné(e) ? oui non
8.3. Avalezvous de travers ? oui non
8.4. Avezvous du mal à avaler ? oui non
8.5. Avezvous des remontées (reflux) acides depuis l’estomac ? oui non
8.6. Avezvous des hernies (extériorisation d’un morceau d’intestin
à travers la paroi du ventre) au niveau du ventre (autour de l’ombilic,
en bas du ventre, juste au dessus de la cuisse) ? oui non
8.7. Avezvous été opéré(e) au niveau du ventre ? oui non
9. La bouche et les dents
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9.1. Avezvous des douleurs au niveau des mâchoires ? oui non
9.2. Avezvous des blocages ou des déboîtements des
mâchoires ? oui non
9.3. Votre bouche estelle sèche ? oui non
9.4. Vos gencives sontelles douloureuses ? oui non
9.5. Vos dents se cassentelles ? oui non
9.6. Vos dents bougentelles ? oui non
9.7. Vos dents ontelles poussé de façon désordonnée ? oui non
10. VessiePérinée
10.1. Pouvezvous rester une journée sans avoir envie d’uriner ? oui non
10.2. Avezvous des envies pressantes d’uriner, voire quelques
fuites urinaires ? oui non
10.3. Avezvous une « descente d’organes » (prolapsus) ? oui non
10.4. Avezvous fait des infections urinaires ? oui non
11. AuditionPhonationOlfaction
11.1. Êtesvous gêné(e) par les bruits ? oui non
11.2. Avezvous une oreille très fine (entendezvous des « petits
bruits » que d’autres n’entendent pas ? oui non
11.3. Avezvous une oreille musicale ? oui non
11.4. Êtesvous musicien(ne) ? oui non
11.5. Avezvous des assourdissements (voix faible, extinction) de la
voix ? oui non
11.6. Avezvous des difficultés à entendre, surtout s’il ya du bruit ou
des voix autour de vous ? « Signe du brouhaha » oui non
11.7. Chantezvous bien ? oui non
11.8. Entendezvous des bruits spontanés à l’intérieur de vos oreilles
(acouphènes) ? oui non
11.9. Avezvous un odorat très fin ? oui non
12. Vision
12.1. Êtesvous myope ? oui non
12.2. Êtesvous astigmate ? oui non
12.3. Avezvous une fatigabilité visuelle (lecture, écran) même avec
vos lunettes ? oui non
12.4. Voyezvous double ? oui non
12.5. Êtesvous gêné(e) par la lumière ? oui non
12.6. Vos yeux sontils irrités ? oui non
13. Respiration, poumons, bronches
13.1. Faites vous ou avezvous fait des bronchites ? oui non
13.2. Avezvous des crises de « blocage » respiratoire ? oui non
13.3. Êtesvous essoufflé(e) ? « Signe de l’escalier » oui non
14. Vie génitale, vie sexuelle, grossesses, accouchements
14. 1. Avezvous des difficultés de sensations, lors des relations
sexuelles ? oui non
14.2. Avezvous fait des fausses couches ? oui non
14.3. Les symptômes ontils diminué lors des grossesses ? oui non
14.4. Les accouchements ontils été difficiles ? oui non
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15. Fonctions cognitives et d’apprentissage, émotivité
15.1. Avezvous des troubles de la mémoire ? oui non
15.2. Avezvous des troubles de l’attention ? « Signe du coq à
l’âne » oui non
15.3. Avezvous des difficultés à vous concentrer ? oui non
15.4. Avezvous un bon sens de l’orientation ? oui non
15.5. Êtesvous émotif(ve) ? oui non
Commentaires libres
Annexe
Quelques signes simples, très significatifs
Signe de la porte :
Heurter les encadrements ou accrocher les poignées de porte.
Signe de la portière (ou du caddy) :
Recevoir une décharge électrique en ouvrant la portière d’une voiture ou en poussant un
caddy = minceur de la peau qui est très conductrice.
Signe de la chaussette (ou de la bouillote) :
Mettre des chaussettes la nuit pour dormir = dysautonomie avec pieds froids =
dysautonomie avec sensation de pieds froids.
Signe de l’escalier :
Essoufflement par manque de contrôle respiratoire = mauvais fonctionnement des
mécanorécepteurs des membres inférieurs.
Signe de Miget :
Ecchymose importante au pli du coude lors d’une prise de sang ; décrit dans la thèse
d’Alexandre Miget (Paris, 1933) dans laquelle il a, pour la première fois, associé Ehlers et
Danlos pour dénommer cette maladie.
Signe de Gorlin :
Possibilité de toucher le bout de son nez avec l’extrémité de la langue, indiquant l’absence
ou l’étirabilité du frein de langue.
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Sign of the hubbub:
Difficulty hearing what a caller says when several people speak next to each other or in a
noisy environment.
Sign from the cock to the donkey:
Pass easily from one subject to another.
Sign of the label:
Cut the labels of the clothes (blouses, corsages, polos ...) that irritate a hyperaesthetic
skin).
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