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by Pxtl 4597 days ago
Marfan syndrome makes you tall and lanky, so they actually have to watch for it carefully in highschool basketball teams. The build it gives them makes them a natural at the sport, but the stress of the game combined with the heart weakness caused by Marfan Syndrome can be lethal.

I suspect a lot of kids who lost their basketball dreams in a heart-attack will be lining up for this procedure.

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My favourite artist has Marfan Syndrome, Bradford Cox of Deerhunter: http://www.miscmusic.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/138.jpg