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Can any doctors or people who've been treated for eds please tell me how to get diagnosis?

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Clinical criteria: It is usually a clinical diagnosis made using a set of clinical criteria; however, there are some genetic tests that can look for some variants of eds.

Answered 8/24/2013

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