Items Tagged ‘Dr. Andrew Engel’

November 16, 2015

Diagnosing Rare Diseases Through Individualized Medicine

By Jeff Briggs Jeff Briggs (@JeffreyBriggs)

Many of the patients referred to Mayo Clinic’s Individualized Medicine Clinic have been on a diagnostic odyssey that can make navigating a maze seem simple. They have experienced a protracted and arduous journey of questions, uncertainties, and fear to find answers about rare medical conditions they suffer from. For some people this frustrating and scary […]

View full entry

Tags: center for individualized medicine, diagnostic odyssey, Dr. Andrew Engel, Dustin Bennett, individualized medicine, Individualized Medicine Clinic, Precision Medicine, rare disease, Stacy Carlson, whole genome sequencing


October 30, 2015

Lifetime of Seeking Rewarded with a Diagnosis

By Jeff Briggs Jeff Briggs (@JeffreyBriggs)

Stacy Carlson was born with congenital myasthenic syndrome, and, although she received a number of opinions throughout her life, it wasn’t until age 44 that she received a definitive diagnosis. Her local physician referred Stacy to Mayo Clinic’s Andrew Engel, M.D., whose work in whole exome sequencing to identify novel muscular dystrophy mutations has been […]

View full entry

Tags: center for individualized medicine, congenital myasthenic syndrome, diagnostic odyssey, DNA Testing, Dr. Andrew Engel, Dx, individualized medicine, muscular dystrophy, Precision Medicine, Stacy Carlson


Contact Us · Privacy Policy