Preventive medicine for genetic disorders

✍ Scribed by Wilson, Golder N.

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 5 KB
• Volume: 89
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0148-7299
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1096-8628(19990625)89:2<55::aid-ajmg1>3.0.co;2-z

✦ Synopsis

Preventive Medicine for Genetic Disorders

Although congenital disorders are rarely cured, prevention of their complications is often possible. Preventive management allows physicians to supplement the initial diagnostic encounter with a positive plan of action that benefits patients and empowers families. The authors of this volume discuss preventive strategies for genetic syndromes that range from life's beginnings to its end-from preconception screening (Schrander-Stumpel, this issue) to the care of older (van Allen et al., this issue) or terminal (Barr and Cohen, this issue) individuals. Components of the preventive approach will be reviewed here, both to introduce the accompanying articles and to emphasize key questions for future research.