Genetic counseling: Hyper-extensibility

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Hyper-extensibility

Contents 1 Introduction 2 Contracting 3 Review medical history 4 Review family history 5 Physical exam 6 Psychosocial Issues 7 Other possible counseling issues 8 Notes

[edit] Introduction

[edit] Contracting

• Review a few things about medical history
• Review a few things about family history
• Physical exam
• Make any testing recommendations
• Answer any questions

[edit] Review medical history

[edit] Review family history

[edit] Physical exam

[edit] Psychosocial Issues

• Issue of nothing being wrong…may have to deal with the possibility of something else being wrong than the original thought (glaucoma/nearsightedness/Stickler's)
• Mom not recognizing the hyper-extensibility of herself/children/family.

[edit] Other possible counseling issues

• Dominant inheritance (Stickler's syndrome, inheritance)
• Recessive inheritance
• Multifactorial inheritance

[edit] Notes

The information in this outline was last updated in 2000.

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