Clinical management of sickle cell disease

Title : Clinical management of sickle cell disease

Abstract:

A brief background of disease: epidemiology, genetics, pathophysiology, clinical symptoms and complications. How disease is transmitted, changes in haemoglobin structure and function; how that affects patient health and organ function. Chronic and acute pain and how that affects patients’ life and surrounding environment; cardiovascular, respiratory, kidney/urinary tract, bone, skin and infectious clinical and laboratory presentation. Pain control management, with hydration, analgesia; therapeutic approach, prophylaxis of complications with hydroxyurea, antibiotics, vaccines, vitamin supplements; treatment of specific organ complications; precaution in pregnancy and surgical operations. Current strategies of cure with bone marrow transplant and gene therapy; future aspects.

Biography:

Dr. Lambros Bourantas studied at Medicine School of University of Athens, Greece, Graduated in 2003. He started his specialization at 401 Military Hospital of Athens and at Department of Haematology, University Hospital of Ioannina, Greece. He received his PhD at the same institution, 2008. He completed the training at Department of Haematology, Imperial College, London, UK. He received the CCST equivalent in Haematology, 2014. He worked as Sp. Registrar and Haematology Consultant in various posts in the UK; since 2021 he works as a Haematology Consultant in Larnaka, Cyprus. He has been giving lectures to European University of Cyprus and worldwide.