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Born with a rare circulatory disorder called Klippel-Trenaunay-Weber syndrome, he has no deep venous system to return blood from his right leg toward his heart.
From The Rough 2008
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The syndrome is called Klippel-Trenaunay Weber Syndrome and it is a chromosomal syndrome.
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2009
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Today VBF is the leading not-for-profit in the world for children and adults affected by hemangiomas, port wine stains, Sturge-weber syndrome, Klippel Trenaunay and other vascular malformations and anomalies.
Hyleri Katzenberg: Not Just a Birthmark: The Struggle Against Vascular Deformities Hyleri Katzenberg 2010
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Today VBF is the leading not-for-profit in the world for children and adults affected by hemangiomas, port wine stains, Sturge-weber syndrome, Klippel Trenaunay and other vascular malformations and anomalies.
Hyleri Katzenberg: Not Just a Birthmark: The Struggle Against Vascular Deformities Hyleri Katzenberg 2010
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Martin suffers from Klippel-Trenaunay-Weber syndrome (KTW), a very rare birth defect that was not diagnosed until he was five years old.
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Augusta Klippel (née Manoy), who arrived in New Zealand in 1910 from Latvia with her mother and two sisters, was the first woman to graduate in medicine in New Zealand, receiving her degree from Otago University in 1926, and following this with graduate studies in pediatrics in London and Vienna.
New Zealand: Modern (Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries). 2009
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In her airy kitchen, she shows snapshots sent to her by the parents of other children with Klippel-Trenaunay-Weber syndrome: kids with arms or legs discolored to a raw purple, swollen like balloons with pooled blood.
From The Rough 2008
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You remember the facts in this case: Martin, who suffers from Klippel-Trenauay Syndrome, once played on the PGA Tour until his condition left him unable to compete without a golf cart.
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In 1992, the mission was expanded to serve one million individuals with Port Wine Stains and Klippel-Trenaunay
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Klippel-Trenaunay-Weber syndrome is actually a disorder you're born with, but in Judd's case it took decades to manifest itself.
Chicago Reader 2010
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