Addressing hemophiliac patients, at a one-day open clinic for their effective treatment and management, Professor Neelam Marwaha, head of Department of Transfusion Medicine, PGIMER, organized by the Hemophilic Welfare Society of Chandigarh, in Sector-15 community center on Sunday, said that the local blood bank would commence the facility for processing cryoprecipitate from fresh blood from June this year.
Cryoprecipitate was far better than FFP in terms of effectiveness and she would ensure supply June onwards, as there was ample quantity of Fresh Frozen Plasma (FFP) in the blood bank of PGI would be provided to hemophiliacs on demand, despite an acute shortage of cryoprecipitate due to non-availability of requisite staff and equipment.The psychological clinic was also held and 300 patients were clinically checked and AHF VIII infused to the needy Patients with Hemophilia (PWHs.). The physiotherapist demonstrated a few exercises practically, to the PWHs for improving their joint mobility.
She requested the hemophilia societies to follow in the footsteps of various other states in providing free facility to patients and handlers, for going to PGI, Chandigarh, for their treatment with factors VIII and IX. She asked them to form a federation to pressurize the government
She advised the patients to get regular medical checks to maintain the baseline level of the factor VIII and IX, and urged the society to update the data of the PWHs for research and reference purposes, stressing upon the doctors of the PGI present on the occasion, to regularly hold such open clinics for the well being and the benefit of the PWHs.
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Researchers from University of Rochester Medical Centre have made subtle changes in the structure of a key protein that may help in developing new treatments for hemophilia, an inherited
Researchers from University of Rochester Medical Centre have made subtle changes in the structure of a key protein that may help in developing new treatments for hemophilia, an inherited
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Hemophilia Can Be Reduced Through Awareness And Proper Treatment
World Hemophilia Day is observed every April 17 to promote a global effort to secure appropriate care and treatment for a disease that is the oldest known inherited bleeding disorder
World Hemophilia Day is observed every April 17 to promote a global effort to secure appropriate care and treatment for a disease that is the oldest known inherited bleeding disorder
