Bronchiectasis and Marfan’s syndrome

Abstract
Marfan’s syndrome is a rare hereditary disorder characterized by skeletal, cardiovascular and ocular abnormalities. Pulmonary abnormalities occur in approximately 10% of patients the commonest being spontaneous pneumothorax and emphysema. A patient is described who had Marfan’s syndrome and bronchiectasis, an association only described on 2 previous occasions in the literature.