National diagnostic and care protocols published by French HAS in the first half of 2020

Jul 2020

The French High Authority for Health (HAS) develops national diagnostic and care protocols whose objective is to guarantee the quality and safety of care delivery within the French setting. In the first half of 2020, national diagnostic and care protocols have been developed for the following eighteen topics:

Glanzmann's thrombasthenia and related platelet pathologies
7q11.23 microduplication syndrome
MECP2 gene duplication syndrome
Behçet's disease
Becker's muscular dystrophy
Trisomy 21
Child hypersensitivity pneumonitis
Spinal dysraphism (Spina Bifida) - urological management in adults
HNF-1β related disease
Pulmonary arterial hypertension
Charcot-Marie-Tooth hereditary sensitive motoric neuropathies
Takayasu arteritis
Chronic non-infectious uveitis in children and adults
Allan Herndon-Dudley Syndrome (AHDS) (MCT8 thyroid hormone transporter)
Non-Vascular Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (NVEDS)
Bullous pemphigoid
AA Amyloidosis
Generic Polyhandicap

See the report in French here.

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