Clinical characteristics, hematology and imaging of children with sickle cell disease treated with moderate, non-escalated doses of hydroxyurea and the future of the specialty would also be topics addressed by those attending the Congress at the Conference Center in Havana.

On Thursday, the participants called for reviving the idea of building camps for children and adolescents with hemophilia.

Relatives and doctors agreed that in those places, the experts could deal in detail with all peculiarities of this disease which will also allow relatives to better manage the disease, after this effective way of training.

Hemophilia is an inherited bleeding disorder in which the blood does not clot properly. This can lead to spontaneous bleeding following surgery or an injury.

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