Was Paganini born with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome phenotype 4 or 3?

bility unlikely for the following reasons: 1) Isopropanol was detected in the patient’s blood on more than one occasion during hospitalization. Specimens were drawn by different staff each time. Our current phlebotomy protocol specifically addresses the need to avoid isopropanol swab contamination. Considering the number of phiebotomists involved with the patient, it is difficult to support the contamination hypothesis. 2) Three Vacutainer Tubes received for the toxicological analyses on the patient were reasonably full. To have a blood isopropanol concentration of -400 mg/dL due to contamination, the Vacutainer Tubes would have to be contaminated with -60 L of 70% isopropanol. It is difficult to conceive how this much isopropanol could have been introduced into the specimen by contamination. 3) An experiment was conducted where blood samples from volunteers were drawn immediately after wiping their arms with isopropanol swab. When the 7or 10-mL Vacutainer Tubes were ifiled with blood and the blood was analyzed for volatiles, isopropanol was not detected. 4) Of the -30 blood specimens received daily for analysis of volatiles during the patient’s hospitalization, none showed any pattern that suggested isopropanol contamination from a venipuncture site. These observations and studies, in our opinion, make unlikely the possibility of isopropanol contamination during venipuncture of the patient.