Across the Lifespan of Women and Girls with Blood Disorders: Adolescence through Menopause

December 6, 2013



This live activity will provide evidence-based, practical information on the clinical management of women and girls with blood disorders across their lifespan from menarche through menopause and beyond. The discrete life-stage impact of these disorders, the best diagnostic tools, optimal therapies, and treatment guidelines will be presented.
 

Location: Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, Rm 291-292
New Orleans, LA

Learning Objectives

  • Discuss available options for optimally managing menses and menstrual pain in adolescents with sickle cell disease
     
  • Describe and apply the full range of reproductive choices available to young women/women with sickle cell disease and sickle cell trait
     
  • Identify and describe the variable severity in physical phenotype and in hematologic profile of the inherited bone marrow failure (BMF) syndromes
     
  • Manage menarche and pregnancy as well as discuss fertility/infertility in patients with inherited BMF diseases
     
  • Construct a plan of management for the severely alloimmunized patient using state-of-the-art surveillance tools and intrauterine transfusion therapy
     
  • Describe and apply available options for optimally managing care in pregnancies identified to be at-risk for fetal and neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia
     
  • Discuss specific plans in the case of thrombocytopenia in pregnancy, for antenatal interventions and for managing delivery and the postpartum period, and the neonate
     
  • Describe and apply optimal approaches to management of older women with the diagnosis of Type 1 VWD, with various VWF levels and gynecologic and medical issues
     
  • Describe the management of menopausal hot flashes in women at risk for thrombosis 
     
  • Apply effective options to relieve vaginal dryness or insomnia if hormone therapy is not an option
Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 3.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™
  • 0.00 Attendance
Registration Opens: 
08/13/2013
Registration Expires: 
04/15/2014
Activity Starts: 
12/06/2013 - 7:00am EST
Activity Ends: 
12/06/2013 - 11:00am EST
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Ernest N. Morial Convention Center
Rm 291-292
New Orleans, LA
United States

Available Credit

  • 3.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™
  • 0.00 Attendance
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