Scientific Program
Scientific Program	Search Abstract
Session
Red Blood cells, Iron and Granulocytes
Date:	Sunday, 07 June 2009
Time:	08:00-09:15
Room:	Hall 9
08:00-08:15
NRAMP1 PROMOTES EFFICIENT IRON RECYCLING FOLLOWING ERYTHROPHAGOCYTOSIS IN VIVO		1075
Soe-Lin, Shan, Apte, Sameer, Andriopoulos, Billy, Andrews, Marc, Schranzhofer, Matthias, Kahawita, Tanya, Garcia Santos, Daniel, Ponka, Prem (Montreal, Canada)
08:15-08:30
PREVENTION OF CARDIAC IRON ACCUMULATION WITH ONCE DAILY ORAL DEFERASIROX THERAPY IN REGULARLY TRANSFUSED PATIENTS WITH ? THALASSAEMIA MAJOR		1076
Pennell, Dudley, El-Beshlawy, Amal, Sutcharitchan, Pranee, Elalfy, Mohsen, Aydinok, Yesim, Taher, Ali, Smith, Gillian, Habr, Dany, Kriemler-Krahn, Ulrike, Hmissi, Abdel, Porter, John B. (London, United Kingdom)
08:30-08:45
RITUXIMAB IN AUTO-IMMUNE HAEMOLYTIC ANAEMIA AND IMMUNE THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA: A BELGIAN RETROSPECTIVE MULTICENTRIC STUDY		1077
Dierickx, Daan, Verhoef, Gregor, Van Hoof, Achiel, Mineur, Philippe, Roest, Arjan, Triffet, Agnes, Kentos, Alain, Pierre, Pascal, Boulet, Dominique, Bries, Greet, Lê, Phu-Quoc, Deprijk, Bernard, De Samblanx, Hadewijch, Drese, Marie-France, Kargar, Khalil, Vermylen, Christiane, Uyttebroeck, Anne, Delforge, Michel, Janssens, Ann, Keppens, Carine, Delannoy, André (Leuven, Belgium)
08:45-09:00
INVOLVEMENT OF MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASES AND CXC CHEMOKINES IN LPS-INDUCED AIRWAY INFLAMMATION IN SICKLE MICE		1078
Franco-Penteado, Carla, Corat, Marcus, Lanaro, Carolina, Albuquerque, Dulcinéia, Gimenes, Ana Paula, Passos, Luiz Augusto, Costa, Fernando (Campinas, Brazil)
09:00-09:15
PROLONGED ADMINISTRATION OF HYDROXYUREA REDUCES MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY IN ADULT PATIENTS WITH SICKLE-CELL SYNDROMES: FINAL ANALYSIS OF A 17-YEAR, SINGLE CENTER, TRIAL		1079
Voskaridou, Ersi, Bilalis, A., Christoulas, D., Varvagiannis, K., Sinopoulou, K., Mpalassopoulou, A., Plata, E., Loukopoulos, D., Terpos, E. (Athens, Greece)