Abstract
In this special issue of the Journal of Cardiovascular Translational Research, two articles provide a pediatric and an adult perspective on genetic counseling for evaluation of patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. The articles by Demo et al. (“Genetic counseling and testing for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: the pediatric perspective”) and Skrzynia (“Genetic counseling and testing for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: an adult perspective”) provide important viewpoints on genetic counseling with specific examples of this application in patients and families suspected of having or definitively having genetic forms of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. These articles provide thoughtful overviews of many positive contributions of genetic counseling to clinical care of cardiac patients, while also outlining some of the present limitations to widespread implementation of cardiac genetic counseling. I would like to highlight several key issues from a physician’s perspective for genetic counseling in this circumstance.
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