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What Families Need to Know!
A Pediatrician’s Tips for Understanding Common Lab Results
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
12pm – 1:15pm MT
GLOBAL Webinars are an important benefit for our Members. Held quarterly, these 1+ hour-long webinars cover topics across the lifespan. Webinars are FREE for GLOBAL Members and $10/webinar for non-Members. If you have a family member or dear friend with Down syndrome, this webinar is for you!
Lab interpretation is challenging for physicians and other providers. But in this era of open access to medical chart information, patients and caregivers often get the lab results before the person who ordered them! Many times, there are many foreign sounding words followed by numbers highlighted in red or followed by exclamation points. Are these results of concern? Are they expected? What is a caregiver to do?
In this session, Dr. Vellody will discuss the common labs that are often sent routinely for people with Down syndrome and provide guidance on their interpretation.
Kishore Vellody, M.D.
Dr. Vellody completed his medical degree at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine and his pediatric residency at the Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. He is a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. In March 2009, he became Medical Director of the Down Syndrome Center of Western Pennsylvania and has also served as President of the National Down Syndrome Congress (NDSC). Dr. Vellody has spoken at a variety of local, regional, national, and international meetings on the care of children with Down syndrome. He became a pediatrician in large part because of his relationship with his older brother, Das, who is smart, funny, caring, … and also has Down syndrome.
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What Families Need to Know! A Pediatrician’s Tips for Understanding Common Lab Results
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Q: How does one define moderate vs severe sleep apnea? What percent in oxygen saturation during OSA episodes is the average range?
A: They are defined based on the obstructive apnea hypopnea index, which is the number of obstructive episodes during sleep divided by the hours of sleep. Many patients experience drops in oxygen saturation during obstructive episodes. These drops are variable and range from very mild to severe down to 60-70%.
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Q: What age are you seeing regression symptoms starting?
A: I think that when we’ve looked at our population level data, the mean age at onset is about 18. We see a heavy clustering in the late teen years, early twenties, and the reason why we’ve come up with this particular age range is because younger than 10, the chances that this may be autism or some other biochemical or genetic phenomenon is much higher. And similarly, over 30 is where we start to kind of bridge that gap into early onset Alzheimer’s, although that is still very young.
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