Johnson and Falls name the Ehlers-Danlos syndrome
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The eponym joining Ehlers's and Danlos's names entered the literature in 1949, consolidating several separately described case families under one label.
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| EDS types | unspecified |
|---|---|
| Date | 1949 |
| Diagnostic criteria | Before formal classification |
| Last checked | 2026-09-16 |
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The chapter credits Johnson and Falls (1949) with the first report of autosomal-dominant inheritance, in a family with 32 affected members, and cites Ronchese's 1936 paper on “the so-called Ehlers-Danlos syndrome”.