Summary: Brief Summary: \* A short description of the clinical study, including a brief statement of the clinical study's hypothesis, written in language intended for the lay public. Limit: 5000 characters. Severe forms of sickle cell syndrome are characterized by the occurrence of repeated vaso-occlusive crises (CVO), early complications and a high morbidity and mortality in these patients. Intensified ma...

Summary: According to the WHO, pain is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience, linked to existing or potential tissue damage, or described in terms suggestive of such damage. It is a legal obligation to evaluate and take care of it (law of 03/04/2022). However, there are still areas where this is not addressed, particularly in cirrhotic patients (Piano V et al. 2023). The global prevalence of cirrh...

Summary: Patients with hemochromatosis or Thalassemia develop progressive tissue and organs damages secondary to iron overload. Iron overload can result both from transfusional hemosiderosis and excess gastrointestinal iron absorption. Iron deposition in the heart, liver, and multiple endocrine glands results in severe damage to these organs, with variable degrees of endocrine and organ failure. Although p...

Summary: Patients in maintenance treatment for HFE hemochromatosis since at least one year will be included in a two year study period and randomized in two groups experimental and control group. Because proton pump inhibitors are widely used as chronic medication, and because they can significantly modify iron absorption, patients will be stratified according to the use of proton pump inhibitors and gende...

Summary: Hepatic steatosis may cause inflammation and fibrosis within the liver potentially leading to end-stage liver disease cirrhosis, liver failure and death. The condition is associated with several other chronic liver diseases like autoimmune hepatitis, primary biliary cholangitis, primary sclerosing cholangitis, hereditary hemochromatosis and alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency and may also develop secon...