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Genetic Counselling - a Guide for GPs, What is genetic counselling? Genetic counselling is not primarily "counselling" in the psychological sense. , ...
Genetic Testing, Therefore before having predictive testing it is essential for a specialist to carefully discuss with you your risks of being affected by the disorder, how the disorder would...
Pre-pregnancy Counselling, This, and the haphazard seeking of pre-pregnancy advice by many patients, means that many opportunities for pre-pregnancy counselling are missed. By the fi...
HIV Counselling, Many GPs were initially reluctant to undertake HIV testing with associated counselling, considering it as complicated and time-consuming. However, over time this rel...
However, where there is familial aggregation of congenital renal malformations with no defined genetic abnormality, genetic counselling may be of less benefit. [ 4 ] The role of ...
Screening results for blood borne viruses, viral load and antigen test results should be reviewed when an invasive test is considered and individualised risk of viral transmission should be discussed....
The parents of children with this type of epilepsy may wish to have genetic counselling to see if there is a chance of further children being affected. Diagnosing absence seizure epileps...
Fatty infiltration of other tissues also occurs but is less marked. Genetic counselling may be given as for any other autosomal recessive disorder. There is no literature about antenatal d...
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Counselling in Primary Care, The British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy's definition of counselling is " Counselling and psychotherapy are um...
Other treatments [ 3 ] Genetic counselling (see also section 'Genetic counselling and risk to relatives', below). Support and counselling for patients and famili...
Assisted reproduction has added risks above those of pregnancy alone, and consultation with an adult congenital heart disease specialist must be performed before treatment. Genetic counsellin...
Women with multiple pregnancies should be informed that the additional risk of miscarriage for twin pregnancy following chorionic villus sampling or amniocentesis performed by an appropriately trained...
Associated conditions should be managed appropriately. Genetic counselling should be offered. Prognosis This depends on the development of associated conditions, especially...
If you have a strong family history of breast or ovarian cancer in your family, but genetic testing finds that you do not have a BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation, you may still have a higher risk of cancer bec...
Therefore, genetic counselling may be an option to consider if you have, or your partner has, epilepsy and also a family history of epilepsy.
Prevention Genetic counselling and early prenatal diagnosis raises the possibility of termination should the fetus be shown to be affected. [ 7 ] A technique called array comparative ge...
Parents will require genetic counselling before further pregnancies. Prognosis Poor in infantile forms with death usually before the age of 2 years. [ 4 ] However, some cases have be...
Prevention Genetic counselling is recommended for prospective parents with a family history of Treacher Collins' syndrome.
It is recommended that you undergo counselling if you are considering genetic testing. Your GP will be able to refer you to a specialist who is a genetic counsellor.