Aetna considers single- or multi-gene genetic testing medically necessary to confirm diagnosis of hereditary DCM diagnosis when either criteria is met: Member has confirmed DCM with no identifiable cause (e.g., autoimmune disease, drug-related, endocrine disorders, infections, toxins); and Testing ...
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Among the 178 FH patients who completed testing, 17% of these patients had genetic testing confirm the diagnosis of FH with pathogenic variants in LDLR, APOB, PCSK9, or LDLRAP1, while 10% of patients were found to have a VUS in one of these 4 genes. Among the 19 hypertriglyceridemia ...
Aside from a thorough medical family history, there is no need to offer any genetic testing on the basis of consanguinity alone. 除了需要一份详尽的家庭病史之外, 没有必要仅根据有血缘关系这一条理由就进行任何的基因测试. 《简明英汉词典》 A generation ago genetic codes were certainly unknown. 遗传...
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In the Framingham classification, the diagnosis of heart failure is based on the concurrent presence of either two major criteria or one major and two minor criteria. [1] Major criteria comprise the following: Paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea Weight loss of 4.5 kg or more in 5 days in response...
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By (a) mapping clinical diagnosis terms to Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO) terms, the clinical data are harmonized to a joint ontological framework. By adding all higher-level (ancestral) terms, it is now possible to identify common shared higher-level terms, a method we refer to as (b) ...
500 different nuclear genes encode mitochondrial proteins21and causal defects have been identified in∼300 genes and presumably more additional disease-associated genes still awaiting identification22. Third, since the diagnosis often relies on biochemical testing of a tissue sample, fibroblast cell lines...
In many of the identified cases, the age-dependent manifestation of additional symptoms and the large clinical heterogeneity rendered a clinical diagnosis difficult or even impossible, hereby supporting the implementation of genetic testing. Table 2 Non-Usher syndromes underlying combined hearing loss and...