| Title: |
Thalassemias and Sickle Cell Diseases in Pregnancy: SITE Good Practice. |
| Authors: |
Valeria Maria Pinto; Rosanna Cima; Rosario Di Maggio; Maria Livia Alga; Antonia Gigante; Filomena Longo; Anna Maria Pasanisi; Donatella Venturelli; Elena Cassinerio; Maddalena Casale; Raffaella Origa; Giovanni Zanconato; Gian Luca Forni; Lucia De Franceschi |
| Contributors: |
Maria Pinto, Valeria; Cima, Rosanna; Di Maggio, Rosario; Livia Alga, Maria; Gigante, Antonia; Longo, Filomena; Maria Pasanisi, Anna; Venturelli, Donatella; Cassinerio, Elena; Casale, Maddalena; Origa, Raffaella; Zanconato, Giovanni; Luca Forni, Gian; De Franceschi, Lucia |
| Publication Year: |
2025 |
| Collection: |
Università degli Studi di Cagliari: UNICA IRIS |
| Subject Terms: |
SCD; good practice; hemoglobin H disease; hemoglobinopathie; pregnancy; sickle cell disease; thalassemia |
| Description: |
Background: Hereditary hemoglobin disorders are the most common globally distributed monogenic red cell diseases. The rights of women with thalassemia or sickle cell disease (SCD) to motherhood need to be protected by creating a roadmap to guide her, and her family network, along all the phases of the event. In fact, pregnancy in these vulnerable patients requires special attention and guidelines from the counseling stage (giving information about the special requirement and risks posed by their pregnancy with respect to the general population) the pre-conception stage, the early and mid-late pregnancy stage, to labor and lactation. The biocomplexity of these diseases requires a multidisciplinary team synergizing with gynecologists and obstetricians. In addition, the presence of a multicultural scenario requires healthcare workers to overcome stereotypes and adopt appropriate anthropological tools that might help them integrate the different cultural models of disease and motherhood. Methods: The Management Committee of the Society for Thalassemia and Hemoglobinopathies (SITE) selected and brought together a multidisciplinary and multiprofessional group made up of experts in hemoglobinopathies and experts in anthropology, flanked along with by experts with methodological and organizational expertise in order to create recommendations based on the integration of available scientific evidence together with expert opinion. Results: The panelists critically analyzed the literature, combining in a single document practices developed over several years of managing young women with hemoglobinopathies in a sensitive phase of their lives. Conclusions: This good practice document is the result of a collegial effort by Italian experts on hemoglobinopathies who are members of SITE. (SITE). |
| Document Type: |
article in journal/newspaper |
| Language: |
English |
| Relation: |
info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/pmid/39941620; info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/wos/WOS:001420234100001; volume:14; issue:3; journal:JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MEDICINE; https://hdl.handle.net/11584/440705; https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11818879/ |
| DOI: |
10.3390/jcm14030948 |
| Availability: |
https://hdl.handle.net/11584/440705; https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm14030948; https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11818879/ |
| Rights: |
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.D7FFF97A |
| Database: |
BASE |