Screening Children for Familial Aortopathies: Tread With Caution.

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The knowledge surrounding the genetic etiologies of familial aortopathies and familial thoracic aortic aneurysms and dissections has greatly expanded over the past few years. However, despite these advances, the underlying molecular etiology remains unidentified in most families with nonsyndromic familial aortopathies, and in a subset of families with syndromic aortopathies. In these families we cannot offer a...

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