Thanks to NOVARTIS sponsorship, Prof. GATTERMANN gave a series of lectures in Canada on MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME (MDS) with special reference to Non-Transferrin-Bound Iron (NTBI) overload trearted by chelating agents such as deferasirox (Exjade).
Approx. 1800 Canadians are affected by MDS.
The cardiotoxic effect of NTBI was emphasised.
Ann.Haematol.(2011) 90:1-10 (Springer)
"Iron overload in MDS-pathophysiology,diagnosis, and complications."
N.Gattermann H.H.U. Dusseldorf, Germany E.Rachmilewitz E.Wolfson Med. Center,Holon, Israel.
Prof Gatterman studied with Late Hepatologist Dame Sheila Sherlock at the Hampstead branch of London's Royal Free Hospital and at the Boston Harvard Medical school. An idiomatically perfect English speaker..
