Selected highlights of the VIII international symposium of clinicians for endocrinopathies in thalassemia and adolescent medicine (ICET-A) on growth, puberty and endocrine complications in Thalassaemia. Auditorium of the sultan Qaboos University (SQU) Muscat (Sultanate of Oman), 20th of December 2014

Vincenzo De Sanctis*, Yasser Wali, Ashraf T. Soliman, Heba Elsedfy, Shahina Daar, Saif A.H. Al-Yaarubi, Surekha Tony, Mohamed Elshinawy, Hanan Fawzy, Taimoora Al-Subhi, Abulhakim Al-Rawas, Muhanna Al-Muslehi, Mohamed El Kholy

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ملخص

The VIII ICET-A International Symposium was held in Muscat (Sultanate of Oman) on the 20th of December, 2014. The symposium included four sessions on a wide range of topics covering growth disorders and endocrine complications in thalassaemia. Despite the fact that endocrine complications are very common in multi-transfused thalassaemia patients a recent survey conducted by the International Network of Clinicians for Endocrinopathies in Thalassemia and Adolescent Medicine (ICET-A) in 2014 in Acitrezza (Catania, Italy) showed that the major difficulties reported by hematologists or pediatricians experienced in thalassaemias or thalassaemia syndromes in following endocrine complications included: Lack of familiarity with medical treatment of endocrine complications, interpretation of endocrine tests, lack of collaboration and on-time consultation between thalassaemic centres supervised by haematologists and endocrinologists. Endocrine monitoring of growth, pubertal development, reproductive ability and endocrine function in general are essential to achieve a good quality of life as well as controlling the pain which results from the defects of bone structure, all of which increase with the age of patients. Such comprehensive care is best provided by coordinated, multidisciplinary teams working in expert centres. The multidisciplinary team must include an endocrinologist, preferably someone experienced in the management of hormonal deficiencies caused early in life by transfusion-induced iron overload.

اللغة الأصليةEnglish
الصفحات (من إلى)313-322
عدد الصفحات10
دوريةPediatric Endocrinology Reviews
مستوى الصوت12
رقم الإصدار3
حالة النشرPublished - مارس 2015

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