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A scientific day to introduce hemophilia at the University of Damascus

2021-09-05T13:48:25.866Z


Damascus, SANA- The Faculty of Medicine at the University of Damascus, in cooperation with the Syrian Society for Hemophiliacs, organized a scientific day for


Damascus-SANA

The Faculty of Medicine at the University of Damascus, in cooperation with the Syrian Society for Hemophiliacs, organized a scientific day to introduce hemophilia and other bleeding disorders and the latest scientific and medical developments in their treatment and prevention.

The scientific day on the new auditorium of the Faculty of Medicine included lectures on improving the quality of life for patients with hemophilia, von Willebrand disease and bleeding disorders that pregnant women face during childbirth.

The Dean of the College of Medicine, Raed Abu Harb, stressed in a statement to SANA’s delegate the importance of spreading awareness about consanguineous marriage and conducting pre-marriage tests to prevent hereditary blood diseases, including hemophilia, pointing out that there are modern technologies that provide early detection of this disease in the embryonic stages.

In turn, the President of the Syrian Society for Hemophiliacs, Dr. Tahani Ali, indicated that the prevention factor with correct laboratory diagnosis and drug management is an advanced preventive step to make hemophilia disease curable and controllable, pointing out that Syria has taken this direction through early prenatal diagnosis and detection of disease vectors.

Ali stated that the number of hemophilia patients in Syria, according to the association’s records, is about 1,300, explaining that there are nearly a thousand unregistered patients, attributing the reason to their unwillingness to disclose their illness.

Director of Al-Mowasat University Hospital, Dr. Essam Al-Amin indicated that the main factor in the spread of the disease is the marriage of relatives and the lack of commitment to conducting pre-marital examinations, while the Director of the University Maternity Hospital, Dr. Jamil Talib, stated that hemophilia is a serious problem that affects the health of the pregnant woman and may appear through coagulation disorders during Birth and thereafter.

In the same context, the Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Human Medicine at Damascus University for Scientific Affairs, Dr. Marwan Al-Halabi, stressed the need to focus efforts and follow modern scientific methods to prevent the genetic transmission of this disease to subsequent generations.

Hemophilia, according to the World Federation of Hemophilia, is a rare disease in which people bleed for a longer time than normal people because their blood does not contain a sufficient amount of clotting factors, which are proteins in the blood that control bleeding. Although it is a genetic disease, it may appear in a child without a previous family history as a result of a change in its genes.

Female hemophilia occurs in one case, if the father is infected and the mother is a carrier of the disease, which is a very rare case, and its symptoms in general are large bruises, bleeding within the muscles and joints, sudden bleeding inside the body for no apparent reason, and bleeding for a long time after an injury, accident, or surgical operation.

Manar Dib

Source: sena

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