Heritable Thoracic Aortic Disease Overview

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

Excerpt

The purpose of this overview is to:

  1. 1

    Define the clinical characteristics of thoracic aortic disease;

  2. 2

    Review the causes of heritable thoracic aortic disease;

  3. 3

    Provide a strategy for evaluation and genetic risk assessment for heritable thoracic aortic disease in a proband;

  4. 4

    Review management recommendations for individuals with heritable thoracic aortic disease;

  5. 5

    Inform genetic counseling and risk assessment in family members of a proband with heritable thoracic aortic disease.

Publication types

  • Review