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Nicklaus Children’s Hospital has several outpatient and urgent care centers throughout South Florida, including on-demand, virtual care.
Walk-in urgent care with no appointment needed.
Serving as your child's primary doctor's office.
Pediatric specialty consultations available closer to home.
A full range of comprehensive services all under one roof.
Connect with providers from the comfort of your own home.
With over 800 pediatric clinicians on staff, we’re dedicated to helping you connect with the right specialist for your needs.
We have expertise in treating children and educating families on hundreds of different conditions.
We use cutting-edge, specialized treatments and procedures to ensure the best care for your child.
Also known as: medical genetic counseling.
Genetic counseling is a counseling session for parents or prospective parents to help them understand their risk of passing along genes and birth defects to children. Because sickle cell disease is the most common genetic disorder in the U.S., it is extremely important that patients and families are offered testing and counseling for both sickle cell trait and sickle cell disease.
A certified genetic counselor will meet with the prospective parents and discuss the possible risks of genetic disorders to their children. They’ll also discuss the details of these potential diseases and how they can impact the baby’s life. The risks the counselors discuss will be based on the parents’ risks based on family history or genetic testing, or the baby’s risk based on prenatal testing.
No special preparation is needed. Parents can get genetic counseling at any time during or before a pregnancy.
There are no risk factors related to genetic counseling.
Reviewed by: Athena C Pefkarou, MD
This page was last updated on: November 06, 2020 12:21 PM
Our clinical geneticists and genetic counselors at Nicklaus Children's Hospital evaluate children with developmental delays, unusual facial features, metabolic disorders, seizures, craniofacial anomalies and failure to thrive.
As the name suggests, oral facial digital syndrome is a genetic disorder that primarily affects the development of the mouth, face, fingers and toes.
Genetic diseases are conditions that occur due to a mutation in a gene in the body’s cells.