Clinical Guidance App for Management of Genetic Aortic Disorders

Hosted by GADA Canada and the John Ritter Foundation, this clinical webinar highlights a newly published Genomic Medicine Guidance app developed by UTHealth. The app is designed to enable clinicians to use this resource as a decision support tool and share information easier with patients.

The app is developed with a goal to integrate easy access to gene-based management for heritable aortic disorders in clinical practice and improve recognition and treatment of patients. For patients, consider sharing this app with your physicians to help empower your specialized care. You must have been genetically diagnosed and know your diagnosis.

Genetic testing for heritable aortic disorders is essential, to determine personal and family risks for life-threatening aortic dissections and to guide the management of associated complications.

Dr. Siddharth Prakash, Cardiologist, UTHealth, and Dr. David Murdock, Clinical Geneticist, UTHealth, presents the current version of the Genomic Medicine Guidance app and their visions to use the app for research to expand the spectrum of genetic variants causing heritable aortic disorders and to integrate facial recognition in the app for improved management.

The genetic information in the app was sourced from the GADA-funded Montalcino Aortic Consortium registry and the NIH genetic repositories ClinVar and ClinGen.

0:00 Introductions
7:26 Dr. Prakash begins presentation
8:04 Why is this app needed?
9:57 Features of the app
10:35 Advocate for yourself using this app
11:00 App walk-through
15:13 What if my variant isn’t on the app?
18:26 For patients: how can this app help me?
20:00 Accessible version of app
21:54 Dr. Murdock begins his presentation on AI-Powered Face Analysis
42:33 Q&A

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