Antonio Maltese's guest appearances

Antonio Maltese

DNA Today: A Genetics Podcast

Empowered Patient Podcast

Wait, How Do You Spell That? A Rare Disease Podcast

Amy Dahm

Rosalind Picard

David Solomon

Matt Murphy

Dani Shapiro

Robin Smith

Thomas Cowan

Greg Miller

Travis Mickle

Justin Miller

Sean Tucker

Matt Wilson

Chris Young

Jim Martin

Robin Zander

OwlTail

Hello! We are back with a conversation recorded during rare disease week with Antonio Maltese, a 23-year-old managing Huntington's disease and ostenecrosis. We talk about disappointing medical care, hope for the future, and fears surrounding the diagnoses. Read more about Antonio at these links: https://patientworthy.com/2019/05/23/how-i-turned-huntingtons-into-my-lifes-passion-for-change/ https://patientworthy.com/2020/03/16/help-huntingtons-disease-patient-dvocate-in-need/. You can also find Huntington's support here https://en.hdyo.org/ and https://hdsa.org/.

Hello! We are back with a conversation recorded during rare disease week with Antonio Maltese, a 23-year-old managing Huntington's disease and ostenecrosis. We talk about disappointing medical care, hope for the future, and fears surrounding the diagnoses. Read more about Antonio at these links: <a href="https://patientworthy.com/2019/05/23/how-i-turned-huntingtons-into-my-lifes-passion-for-change/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://patientworthy.com/2019/05/23/how-i-turned-huntingtons-into-my-lifes-passion-for-change/</a> <a href="https://patientworthy.com/2020/03/16/help-huntingtons-disease-patient-dvocate-in-need/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://patientworthy.com/2020/03/16/help-huntingtons-disease-patient-dvocate-in-need/</a>. You can also find Huntington's support here <a href="https://en.hdyo.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://en.hdyo.org/</a> and <a href="https://hdsa.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://hdsa.org/</a>.

"I found out I had Huntington's Disease through a letter in the mail" talking about HD, Ostenecrosis, and the future with Antonio Maltese

Maria Picone

Maria Picone, co-founder TREND.Community and Antonio Maltese, student with Huntington's Disease talk about the challenges of finding valid information about rare diseases, the value of community support in discovering novel approaches to treatments, providing evidence to pharmaceutical companies about little understood symptoms, and advocating for awareness about rare diseases particularly during Rare Disease week and Rare Disease Day February 29. #rarediseases #huntingtonsdisease HopeForHuntingtons.com TREND.Community Download the transcript here

Maria Picone, co-founder TREND.Community and Antonio Maltese, student with Huntington's Disease talk about the challenges of finding valid information about rare diseases, the value of community support in discovering novel approaches to treatments, providing evidence to pharmaceutical companies about little understood symptoms, and advocating for awareness about rare diseases particularly during Rare Disease week and Rare Disease Day February 29. #rarediseases #huntingtonsdisease <a href="http://HopeForHuntingtons.com" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">HopeForHuntingtons.com</a> <a href="http://trend.community" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">TREND.Community</a> <a href="http://empoweredpatientradio.com/raising-awareness-about-huntingtons-and-other-rare-diseases-with-maria-picone-trend-community-and-antonio-maltese-transcript" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Download the transcript here</a>

Raising Awareness About Huntington's and Other Rare Diseases with Maria Picone TREND Community and Antonio Maltese

After having a family history of Huntington's Disease, Antonio Maltese was pre-symptomatically genetically diagnosed with the disease himself. This diagnosis has motivated Antonio to become a fierce patient advocate with big plans to change the future of people with Huntington’s disease. Huntington’s Disease is progressive brain disorder that causes uncontrolled movements, emotional problems, and loss of thinking ability. This neurodegenerative disease is caused by an excess of CAG repeats in the Huntingtin gene (HTT). Unaffected people have this DNA sequence repeated 10 to 35 times. Those that may be affected have 35-39 repeats and those with over 40 repeats will develop Huntington’s Disease. This disease is inherited in an autosomal dominant pattern, meaning if a parent has Huntington’s Disease their child has a 50% chance of inheriting the disease. Antonio shares about his paternal grandmother who had Huntington's Disease and why he decided to pursue genetic testing. The biggest breakthrough in neurodegenerative diseases for 50 years recently occurred, 46 patients had their Huntington genes silenced at the University College London as part of a research study. Antonio I and discuss the impact this could have on Huntington's Disease and other neurodegenerative diseases. Antonio shares the resources he has benefited from including HDBuzz and the blogs where he has collected his research for others: huntingtonsinitiative.blogspot.com and chuffed.org. Don't forget to follow the show on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook!

After having a family history of Huntington's Disease, Antonio Maltese was pre-symptomatically genetically diagnosed with the disease himself. This diagnosis has motivated Antonio to become a fierce patient advocate with big plans to change the future of people with Huntington’s disease. <a href="https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/condition/huntington-disease" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Huntington’s Disease</a> is progressive brain disorder that causes uncontrolled movements, emotional problems, and loss of thinking ability. This neurodegenerative disease is caused by an excess of CAG repeats in<a href="https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/gene/HTT" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> the Huntingtin gene (HTT)</a>. Unaffected people have this DNA sequence repeated 10 to 35 times. Those that may be affected have 35-39 repeats and those with over 40 repeats will develop Huntington’s Disease. This disease is inherited in an autosomal dominant pattern, meaning if a parent has Huntington’s Disease their child has a 50% chance of inheriting the disease. Antonio shares about his paternal grandmother who had Huntington's Disease and why he decided to pursue genetic testing. The biggest breakthrough in neurodegenerative diseases for 50 years recently occurred,<a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/health-42308341" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> 46 patients had their Huntington genes silenced at the University College London as part of a research study.</a> Antonio I and discuss the impact this could have on Huntington's Disease and other neurodegenerative diseases. Antonio shares the resources he has benefited from including <a href="https://en.hdbuzz.net/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">HDBuzz</a> and the blogs where he has collected his research for others: <a href="http://huntingtonsinitiative.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">huntingtonsinitiative.blogspot.com</a> and <a href="https://chuffed.org/project/hope-for-huntingtons" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">chuffed.org</a>. Don't forget to follow the show on<a href="https://www.instagram.com/dnaradio/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Instagram</a>,<a href="https://twitter.com/DNApodcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Twitter</a>, and<a href="https://www.facebook.com/DNApodcast/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Facebook</a>!

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