Current perspectives in the treatment of hereditary diseases
Baldellou Vázquez, A.
Anales Espanoles de Pediatria 19 Suppl. 18: 71-83
1983
ISSN/ISBN: 0302-4342 PMID: 6580835 Document Number: 211812
A general review of the multiple up to date therapeutic trends in this field is intended based on new available technology and on a better knowledge of genetic disease physiopathology. Three possible systems to control patients with inheritable disease deduced of our own experience and on literature are analyzed. Cure by correction, replacement or genetic manipulation; Therapy by enzymatic manipulation, biochemical correction or surgical treatment Prevention by genetic counseling and discovery of pharmacogenetic patterns and higs risk populations. The wide perspectives opened to the next future compelled to an exhaustive diagnosis of patients, considering possibilities of reasonable therapy.