CLOVES Syndrome Awareness Day

August 03: CLOVES Syndrome Awareness Day

CLOVES Syndrome Awareness Day

CLOVES Syndrome Awareness Day is to bring attention to this very rare condition. CLOVES is an acronym of the major symptoms.

C: congenital
L: lipomatous, pertaining to or resembling a benign tumor made up of mature fat cells
O: overgrowth of fatty tissue
V: vascular malformations
E: Epidermal naevi, which are sharply-circumscribed chronic lesions of the skin, and benign
S: spinal / skeletal anomalies or scoliosis

The syndrome was first identified in 2007 by colleagues who recognized the range of symptoms from a set of seven patients. This initial description is named CLOVE syndrome. However, it’s believed that the first description of a case of CLOVES syndrome was written by Hermann Friedberg, a German physician, in 1867.

CLOVES syndrome is represented by a green ribbon; rare disease awareness is represented by a zebra-striped ribbon.

⇴ image based on purchased image from vecteezy

Share It:
Skip to content