Active clinical trials for "Thalassemia"

Treatment of patients with beta thalassemia in North America has altered dramatically during the past 40 years, with improvements in transfusion therapy and introduction of iron chelation therapy. Thalassemia patients now enjoy an increased life expectancy to the fifth and sixth decades of life, with fertility and childbearing becoming important issues. Data regarding this important topic remain limited, without clear data regarding iron control including serial assessment of hepatic iron concentration, the need for assistance in becoming pregnant, and use of iron chelating agents during pregnancy. As the life expectancy increases and overall health improves in thalassemia, clear data on fertility, pregnancy complications, and the effect of pregnancy on maternal health in thalassemia patients are necessary since these will have a direct impact on patient care, quality of life, and patient expectations.

Worldwide, there are more than 60,000 births annually of serious forms of thalassemia .The World Health Organization considers thalassemia to be a major health burden. Beta- thalassemia is a group of recessively inherited disorders of hemoglobin synthesis characterized by reduced synthesis of the ß-globin chain caused by a mutation. The homozygous state results in severe anemia which needs regular blood transfusion.

Our purpose is to investigate whether thallasaemia trait offers protection against cardiovascular events and whether this can be applied to specific characteristics of these people ( better lipid profile , better blood pressure profile) as scientific literature suggests.

Sickle cell nephropathy is a known complication of sickle cell anemia (SCA) manifested by increase in glomerular filtration rate (glomerular hyperfiltration) and results in proteinuria and chronic renal failure. Our goal is to examine the prevalence of proteinuria and microalbuminuria as an early predictive factor of glomerular injury, among young people who suffer from SCA as well as those who suffer from combined sickle cell/beta-thalassemia.

The purpose of this study is to take advance of the presence of two different cohorts of SCA patients in one country, the first group included SCA patients from Bedouin Arab origin that lives in Israel for more than one century and originally comes from African countries or Saudi Arabia, those patients lives in north east Israel and are treated at the Hematology Unit of the Emek Medical Center, the second group are SCA patients from African origin that come to Israel in the last decades and belong to original African population, this group receive treatment at the Pediatric Hematology Unit, Dana Children's Hospital, Ichilov Medical Center. A third group is a cohort of SCA patients treated at Schneider Children's Hospital Hematology Unit. Those patients belong also to the Israel Arab population and patients from a village that African Muslims live for many years. The characteristics of the three groups will be compared to the characteristics of a fourth group, a cohort of Afro-American SCA patients that are followed up and treated at the Pediatric Hematology Unit, Detroit Children's Medical Center, Detroit, Michigan, USA.

Red Cell Distribution Width Index versus Red Cell Distribution Width as Discriminating Guide for Iron Deficiency Anaemia and Beta Thalassemia Trait .

There is still an ongoing lack of awareness about thalassemia among Indonesians despite high disease prevalence, and this is associated with poor implementation of preventive and promotive measures. Thalassemia experts argue that education and raising awareness about thalassemia must be done from an early age in order to relieve the heavy disease burden of thalassemia, especially in Indonesia as it is geographically located in the thalassemia belt. In spite of this, there has been limited research on public perception towards thalassemia in Indonesia, particularly among young people. In this study, the researcher will ask young people in Indonesia between the age of 15-24 who are currently attending high school or university-level education to fill in an online survey. The survey consists of questions about the participants' demographic information as well as their knowledge, attitude, and practice (KAP) scores towards thalassemia. The study is expected to run from December 2020 to March 2021, with the online survey distributed in January 2021. Data collection will immediately follow, and it will be analyzed using univariate, bivariate, and multivariate analysis using the appropriate statistical tests. The findings gathered from this study will be vital in providing new insight into how the youth sees thalassemia in Indonesia. Such public health information will prove to be important in designing successful thalassemia intervention and education programs for Indonesian youth.

to study the frequency and pattern of dermatological abnormalities in egyptian childern with beta thalassemia.relationof abnormalities to duration of disease and frequency of transfusion

Multiple studies showed the negative impact thalassemia disease and its therapy have on the cognition of these patients. This study aims to assess and compare the cognition, psychological impact and quality of life among patients with B thalassemia major, requiring regular blood transfusion, patients with B thalassemia intermedia, who don't, and healthy controls. Thus, estimating the role of blood transfusion and hemosiderosis in cognitive impairment, psychological symptoms, and low quality of life in these patients.