{"id":515,"date":"2018-04-19T20:11:12","date_gmt":"2018-04-19T20:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/haema-journal.gr\/?p=515"},"modified":"2018-04-24T20:55:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-24T20:55:00","slug":"evolution-and-effectiveness-of-the-greek-national-treatment-program-for-thalassemia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haema-journal.gr\/?p=515","title":{"rendered":"Evolution and Effectiveness of the Greek National Treatment Program for Thalassemia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Haema 2011; 2(3): 330-340<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>by Christos Kattamis<\/p>\n<p>Professor of Paediatric, Medical School University of Athens<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/haema-journal.gr\/PDF\/2011\/HAEMA_2011-330.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Full PDF (in Greek)<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/haema-journal.gr\/PDF\/2011\/HAEMA_2011-330.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-390 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/haema-journal.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/PDF-icon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"36\" height=\"36\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h5><strong>Abstract<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Greece thalassemia was recognized as a severe public health program since 1960 after extensive epidemiological studies. Greek medicine was actively involved in the study and management of thalassemias and in cooperation with health authorities organized and implemented a national program for the management of \u03b2 thalassemias. The program consisted of two parts: one for prevention and the other for follow and treatment of patients. This article reviewes the progressive evolution of follow and management of patients with \u03b2 thalassemias in Greece; in particular the organization, structure, implementation and evaluation of the National program of treatment of patients with transfusion dependent \u03b2 and \u03b4\u03b2 thalassemias. The final results of the program are comparable to those of other developed coun- tries. In summary these are: a) Complete cure after marrow transplantation in ~150 patients, b) considerable improvement in survival especially of patients on effective chelation (possibility of survival at the age of 40yrs ~90%), c) progressive increase in the mean age of patients (2.4 yrs in 1965 versus ~30 yrs in 2005) d) significant improvement in the main clinical symptoms and complications, e) significant improvement in quality of life and social integration, and f) considerable reduction of the burden of thalassemia as public health problem. For Greek pediatrics thalassemia is now a very rare monogenic genetic disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Haema 2011; 2(3): 330-340 by Christos Kattamis Professor of Paediatric, Medical School University of Athens Full PDF (in Greek) |<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-haema-2011-3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/haema-journal.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/haema-journal.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/haema-journal.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haema-journal.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haema-journal.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=515"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/haema-journal.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":849,"href":"https:\/\/haema-journal.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions\/849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/haema-journal.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haema-journal.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haema-journal.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}