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In this episode of 7-2-1: All You Need to Know About Periods , Dr. Bethany Samuelson Bannow leads an insightful discussion with experts, Dr. Hanny Al-Samkari and Dr. Layla Van Doren, on Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia (HHT) and its complex relationship with thrombosis. Although HHT is widely recognized as a bleeding disorder, emerging evidence highlights an important and often underappreciat...

In this episode of The 7-2-1 , Dr. Kemi Olaiya and Dr. Cheryl Mensah continue the conversation on fertility preservation in sickle cell disease with Dr. Leslie Appiah, a leading expert in fertility preservation. Together, they break down what patients, families, and providers need to know, from insurance coverage and the hematologist’s role, to special considerations like hydration, anesthesia ris...

In this episode of The 7-2-1 , Dr. Kemi Olaiya and Dr. Cheryl Mensah are joined by Dr. Leslie Appiah, a leading expert in fertility preservation, to discuss why fertility preservation matters for people with sickle cell disease. While offering curative potential, they explore how stem cell transplantation and gene therapy can also pose serious risks to reproductive health. The conversation covers...

In our latest episode, we are diving deep into the real talk about periods - why stigma around menstrual bleeding exists, where it comes from, and how we can challenge it together.  We’re thrilled to be joined by Dr. Angela Weyand, pediatric hematologist, and associate professor at the University of Michigan medical school. For the past 9 years, she has co-directed a combined hematology/gynecology...

Our guest for Episode 10 is Dr. Amanda Jacobson Kelly, who is an assistant professor of pediatrics in the division of hematology oncology at Nationwide Children's Hospital and the Ohio State University College of Medicine. Dr. Jacobson Kelly will be continuing the conversation from Episode 9: Let’s Iron It Out , focusing this time on intravenous (IV) iron.

In our ninth podcast, "Let's Iron it Out", Our guest is Dr. Amanda Jacobson-Kelly, who is an assistant professor of pediatrics in the division of hematology oncology at Nationwide Children's Hospital and the Ohio State University College of Medicine. We will discuss the diagnosis and management of iron deficiency and iron deficiency anemia.

In our 8th episode, we continue the conversation from Episode 7: Reproductive Health and Sickle Cell Disease . Joining our hosts, Dr. Sweta Gupta and Dr. Tricia Huguelet, are two guests – Dr. Zachary Ramsay and Dr. Christy Bemrich-Stolz, who share their experience both as researchers and clinicians in treating sickle cell disease. Dr. Ramsay is a physician and clinician epidemiologist at the Unive...

Although we have made leaps and strides in the treatment of sickle cell disease with the development of several disease-modifying medications and gene therapies, as physicians we still grapple with basic health issues, specifically for young girls and women, including – menstrual pain, fertility, maintaining a healthy pregnancy, and positive outcomes for mother and baby. Joining our host for this...

As we closed 2023, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved two gene therapies to treat sickle cell disease (SCD). These potential curative therapies include CASGEVY™ (exagamglogene autotemcel [exa-cel]) from Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated and CRISPER Therapeutics, and LYFGENIATM from bluebirdbio. While there is a lot of excitement for these advances, the impacts of these therapies are...

As physicians taking care of young girls and women with HMB, we are often faced with a challenging patient who is at a high risk for developing thrombosis due to a family history, a past personal history of thrombosis or medical conditions that could be a trigger for developing blood clots. In this podcast, we will be speaking with our experts on thrombosis and HMB to help us navigate through thes...

The pill aka “oral contraceptive pill, OCP “, “birth control pill” is a misnomer when used solely for HMB by a pre-teen or teenager and unfortunately, can be associated with a stigma. In the true sense, pill used for heavy period flow is in fact hormonal therapy. We will be referring to the pill also as hormonal therapy during this discussion and will clarify several misconceptions about it, there...

In this episode, your hosts continue to explore some great information and facts about the use of IUDs for heavy menstrual bleeding and are joined by a well-known expert in the fields of adolescent medicine and reproductive health, Dr. Claudia Borzutzky.

Recently, there has been a lot of talk about IUDs. As healthcare professionals, we are seeing more and more providers prescribing them as hormonal therapy for bleeding disorders. In this episode, your hosts discuss demystifying IUDs with Dr. Patricia Huguelet, Associate Professor and Chief of Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology at Children’s Hospital Colorado.

For years, providers have heard their patients say, “But my period has always been this heavy. That’s normal for me.” But what does “normal” even mean when we talk about periods? In this episode, your hosts discuss how to differentiate normal vs. heavy menstrual bleeding and tell you more about how heavy menstrual bleeding could be a sign of an underlying bleeding disorder. They also speak to a mo...