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SWG Educational Activities
During the annual meeting of EHA, a scientific session was organized: “Mesenchymal stromal cells: guardians of tissue homeostasis”.
Read moreEHA Pediatric Course 2019
Dates: April 3-6, 2019
Location: Hotel Riviera, Sorrento, Italy
Pediatric Hemato-Oncology is a very specialized branch of hematology.
Meeting program
Friday, April 25 - EHA-Balkan Hematology Day 202509:00 - 10:10 CEST Opening remarks & special lecture
Welcome of participants
Dimitar Efremov (Italy)
Welcome and introduction of meeting program
Irina Panovska-Stavridis (North Macedonia)
EHA and History of Balkan Hematology Day
Gianluca Gaidano (Italy)
History of the Balkan Hematology…
The root of evil: pre-leukemic clones that survive chemotherapy are linked to a higher risk of leukemia recurrence
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is an aggressive form of blood cancer. Treatment with intensive chemotherapy often leads to a period of freedom from overt disease called a remission. However, recurrence of the disease is common.
Read moreSanquin Blood Supply will culture erythrocytes for transfusion purposes
ABO-Rh-D matched transfusions result in alloimmunisation in 3-5% of recipients. Once allo-immunized, it may become very difficult to find appropriate donor erythrocytes, especially when multiple antibodies or rare combinations of antibodies are present.
Read moreMutiple Myeloma at the 19th Congress of the European Hematology Association: What is new?
During the meeting, recently developed approaches for diagnosis and monitoring will be presented. Gene-expression-profiling to detect molecular subgroups with a different prognosis and high-throughput-sequencing to identify new genetic lesions will be discussed.
Read moreTargeting the B-cell Receptor in Aggressive B-cell Lymphomas
In collaboration with Dr. Lou Staudt, Pharmacyclics and associate investigators, we performed a clinical trial of a very potent inhibitor of Bruton Tyrosine Kinase (BTK) called ibrutinib.
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