[Complete alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency in a patient with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome]

Complete alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency of the type PiOO associated with chronic obstructive lung disease, cutaneous hyperextensibility and hyperlaxity of joints were found in a nineteen-year-old Moroccan boy. On a nosological point of view, this patient could be included as a 8th form, in the Ehlers-Danlos syndrome which now groups seven clinical variants. A causal relationship between the biological deficiency and the clinical alterations (pulmonary, cutaneous and articular) could be assumed according to the biological and ultrastructural findings.