Abstracts - XVth Regional Congress of the ISBT, Athens Abstracts - XVth Regional Congress of the ISBT, Athens Search Abstract

Please find below the programma including the submitted abstracts. Please note that: - the sessions are not ordered in the same way as the programme - some speakers have not submitted an abstract - only sessions for which abstracts have been submitted are published in this part. For the complete programme please go back to the scientific programme http://www.isbt.web.org/athens

PROGRAMME Sunday, July 3 2005 Monday, July 4 2005 Tuesday, July 5 2005 Wednesday, July 6 2005

Sunday, July 3 2005

09:00-10:30 Skalkotta Hall SESSION 1: QUALITY OF EVIDENCE IN TRANSFUSION MEDICINE Chair(s): F. Décary (Montreal, Canada)

09:00-10:30 Mitropoulos Hall SESSION 2: HAEMOPOIETIC STEM CELLS Chair(s): N. Anagnou (,, Greece)

11:00-12:30 Skalkotta Hall SESSION 3: SAFE BLOOD ADMINISTRATION Chair(s): H. Askitopoulou (Crete, Greece)

11:00-12:30 Mitropoulos Hall SESSION 4: TRANSFUSION PRACTICE Chair(s): A. Dimakopoulou (Athens, Greece)

14:00-15:30 Skalkotta Hall SESSION 5: HAEMOSTASIS Chair(s): T. Mandalaki (Athens, Greece)

14:00-15:30 Mitropoulos Hall SESSION 6: IMMUNOHAEMATOLOGY Chair(s): Cr. Navarette (,, France)

14:00-15:30 Room MC3 SESSION 7: WHEN ARE BLOOD COMPONENTS CLINICALLY EFFECTIVE; WHAT DO WE REALLY KNOW? Chair(s): J. Christiakis (Thessaloniki, Greece)

Monday, July 4 2005

11:00-12:30 Mitropoulos Hall PARALLEL SESSION 1 - Apheresis Chair(s): G. Theodosiadis (,, Greece)

11:00-12:20 Room MC3 PARALLEL SESSION 2 - Fresh Frozen Plasma Chair(s): F. Moftah (Agouza Giza, Egypt) , K. Sofroniadou (Athens, Greece)

11:00-12:20 Skalkotta Hall PARALLEL SESSION 3 - Immunologic Reactions to Transfusion Chair(s): M.A. Popovsky (Braintree Ma, United States of America) , A. Mougiou (Patras, Greece)

14:00-15:00 Skalkotta Hall PARALLEL SESSION 4 - Bleeding - Thrombosis Chair(s): V. Kretschmer (Marburg, Germany) , A. Karafoulidou (Athens, Greece)

14:00-15:20 Mitropoulos Hall PARALLEL SESSION 5 - Transplantation Chair(s): M. Kazakantza (Patras, Greece)

14:00-15:20 Room MC3 PARALLEL SESSION 6 - Hospital transfusion committees Chair(s): A.R. Bird (Western Cape, South Africa) , E. Zervou (Pedia, Greece)

15:30-17:10 Mitropoulos Hall PARALLEL SESSION 7 - Transfusion transmitted diseases Chair(s): C. Hatzakis (Athens, Greece)

15:30-17:00 Room MC3 PARALLEL SESSION 8 - Immunohematology Chair(s): W.R. Mayr (Wien, Austria) , G. Paterakis (Athens, Greece)

15:30-17:10 Skalkotta Hall PARALLEL SESSION 9 - Developing transfusion strategies Chair(s): H.E. Heier (Oslo, Norway) , S. Lakoumenta (Athens, Greece)

09:00-18:00 Poster session Topic-01: : ORGANISATION OF BLOOD TRANSFUSION SERVICES

09:00-18:00 Poster session Topic-02: DONORS AND BLOOD DONATION

09:00-18:00 Poster session Topic-03.1: HAEMAPHERESIS- DONORS- THERAPEUTIC

09:00-18:00 Poster session Topic-04: QUALITY MANAGEMENT

09:00-18:00 Poster session Topic-05: EDUCATION IN TRANSFUSION MEDICINE

09:00-18:00 Poster session Topic-06.1: CLINICAL PRACTICE OF BLOOD TRANSFUSION- CRITERIA- GUIDELINES

09:00-18:00 Poster session Topic-07: TRANSFUSION REACTIONS

09:00-18:00 Poster session Topic-08.1: TRANSFUSION TRANSMITTED INFECTIONS- PREVENTION

09:00-18:00 Poster session Topic-08.2: TRANSFUSION TRANSMITTED INFECTIONS- TESTING

09:00-10:30 Trianti Hall P LENARY LECTURES 1 - Impact of the EU directive Chair(s): F. Delaney (European Commission,, Luxembourg)

19:00-20:00 Trianti Hall OPENING CEREMONY

Tuesday, July 5 2005

11:00-12:40 Trianti Hall PARALLEL SESSION 10 - Promoting blood donation Chair(s): G. Thurtell (Cape Town, South Africa) , O. Marantidou (Athens, Greece)

11:00-12:20 Room MC3 PARALLEL SESSION 11 - Emerging technologies in transfusion Chair(s): Y. Zhu (Shanghai, China) , A. Mouzaki (Patras, Greece)

11:00-12:10 Skalkotta Hall PARALLEL SESSION 12 - Evidence Based Blood Transfusion Chair(s): M. Bayik (Istanbul, Turkey) , G. Hatzidimitriou (Athens, Greece)

14:00-15:00 Room MC3 PARALLEL SESSION 13 - Hemotherapy in Hemoglobinopathies Chair(s): L. Loukopoulos (Athens, Greece)

14:00-15:00 Skalkotta Hall PARALLEL SESSION 14 - Developments in the safety of plasma derived products Chair(s): V. Economou (Nikea, Greece)

14:00-15:40 Mitropoulos Hall PARALLEL SESSION 15 - NATA session - Autologous Transfusion Chair(s): K. Messmer (Munchen, Germany) , C. Vagianos (Patras, Greece)

16:00-17:20 Skalkotta Hall PARALLEL SESSION 16 - Platelet transfusion Chair(s): A. Travlou (,, Greece)

16:00-17:20 Mitropoulos Hall PARALLEL SESSION 17 - Risk of contamination of blood components Chair(s): C. Bianco (Washington, United States of America) , M. Parara (Athens, Greece)

16:00-17:30 Room MC3 PARALLEL SESSION 18 - The expanding role of the Blood Centre Chair(s): D. Teo (Singapore, Singapore) , I. Peristeri (Athens, Greece)

09:00-18:00 Poster session Topic-08.3: TRANSFUSION TRANSMITTED INFECTIONS- INACTIVATION

09:00-18:00 Poster session Topic-09.1: IMMUNOHEMATOLOGY- RED CELL IMMUNOLOGY

09:00-18:00 Poster session Topic-09.2: IMMUNOHEMATOLOGY- GRANULOCYTE IMMUNOLOGY

09:00-18:00 Poster session Topic-09.3: IMMUNOHEMATOLOGY- PLATELET IMMUNOLOGY

09:00-18:00 Poster session Topic-10.1: IMMUNOTHERAPY- IVIG

09:00-18:00 Poster session Topic-10.2: IMMUNOTHERAPY- LYMPHOCYTE TRANSFUSIONS

09:00-18:00 Poster session Topic-11.1: TRANSFUSION ALTERNATIVES- AUTOLOGOUS TRANSFUSION

09:00-18:00 Poster session Topic-11.2: TRANSFUSION ALTERNATIVES- HEMOPOIETIC GROWTH FACTORS

09:00-18:00 Poster session Topic-12: BLOOD PROCESSING

09:00-18:00 Poster session Topic-13.1: TRANSPLANTATION- PERIPHERAL BLOOD STEM CELLS

09:00-18:00 Poster session Topic-13.2: TRANSPLANTATION- CORD BLOOD STEM CELLS

09:00-18:00 Poster session Topic-14: NEONATAL AND OBSTETRIC TRANSFUSION

09:00-18:00 Poster session Topic-15: HEMOGLOBIN OXYGEN CARRIERS

09:00-18:00 Poster session Topic-16: TISSUE BANKING

09:00-18:00 Poster session Topic-17: FLOW CYTOMETRY

09:00-18:00 Poster session Topic-18.2: ETHICS IN TRANSFUSION MEDICINE- AUDITS

09:00-18:00 Poster session Topic-18.3: ETHICS IN TRANSFUSION MEDICINE- ERROR REPORTING

09:00-18:00 Poster session Topic-19: PLASMA FRACTIONATION

09:00-18:00 Poster session Topic-20: HEMOSTASIS

09:00-18:00 Poster session Topic-21: VARIOUS

09:00-18:00 Poster session Topic-9.4: IMMUNOHEMATOLOGY- MOLECULAR TESTING

09:00-10:30 Trianti Hall P LENARY LECTURES 2 - Communication in Medicine

17:30-19:00 Trianti Hall PLENARY LECTURES 3 - Immunotherapy Chair(s): G. Pangalis (Athens, Greece) , P.F.W. Strengers (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

19:00-19:45 Room MC3 ISBT GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Wednesday, July 6 2005

11:00-12:10 Room MC3 PARALLEL SESSION 19 - Immune-mediated hematologic disorders Chair(s): G. Daniels (Bristol, United Kingdom) , G. Eliopoulos (Crete, Greece)

11:00-12:20 Skalkotta Hall PARALLEL SESSION 20 - Demand and supply of blood and blood products Chair(s): I. Kontopoulou (Athens, Greece)

11:00-12:40 Mitropoulos Hall PARALLEL SESSION 21 - Alternatives to allogeneic transfusion Chair(s): C. Tsatalas (Alexandroupolis, Greece)

09:00-10:30 Trianti Hall P LENARY LECTURES 4 - Gene therapy Chair(s): S. Takamoto (Aichi, Japan) , N. Anagnou (,, Greece)