Management requires a multidisciplinary team familiar with best practices. To ensure care coordination, it’s important for parents, caregivers, and patients to have a reliable expert at the center of their care.1-5
Because achondroplasia leads to foreseeable complications, setting the proper expectations for long-term management—including assembling an engaged care network—is essential. A multidisciplinary network of specialists can provide individualised recommendations to help mitigate the multisystemic complications of achondroplasia.1
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Common complications can be expected across an individual’s lifetime
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Because it is a risk factor for sudden death, cervicomedullary compression should be monitored closely in which age groups?
