Heritable Thoracic Aortic Disease Overview

Dianna M Milewicz; Alana C Cecchi

Heritable Thoracic Aortic Disease Overview

Review

In: GeneReviews^® [Internet]. Seattle (WA): University of Washington, Seattle; 1993.

2003 Feb 13 [updated 2023 May 4].

Authors

Dianna M Milewicz¹, Alana C Cecchi¹

Book Editors

Margaret P Adam, Ghayda M Mirzaa, Roberta A Pagon, Stephanie E Wallace, Lora JH Bean, Karen W Gripp, Anne Amemiya

Affiliation

¹ Division of Medical Genetics, Department of Internal Medicine, McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas

PMID: 20301299
Bookshelf ID: NBK1120

Excerpt

The goals of this overview on heritable thoracic aortic aneurysms and dissections (shortened in this GeneReview to heritable thoracic aortic disease [HTAD]) are the following.

Goal 1: Define the clinical characteristics of thoracic aortic disease.

Goal 2: Review the causes of HTAD.

Goal 3: Provide a strategy for evaluation and genetic risk assessment for HTAD in a proband.

Goal 4: Inform genetic counseling and risk assessment in family members of a proband with HTAD.

Goal 5: Review management recommendations for individuals with HTAD.

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