Ehlers-Danlos syndromes: new labels confuse everyone

Over the past 15 years, my caseload of patients with Ehlers-Danlos syndromes (EDS)4 has increased from two a year to two a month. Almost all have hypermobile EDS. The 2017 classification aimed to tighten the categorisation of EDS1 but seems to have substantially increased the number of patients instead. The new diagnostic approach is of the “pick and mix” variety; careful selection shows that all …