The Importance of Antenatal Diagnostic Procedures in The Minor Thalassaemic Pregnant Women to Decrease The Incidence of Congenital Major Thalassaemia

Thalassaemia is a common disease in the medetereanean sea countres including Syria. A study was done on 44 women with thalassaemia, showed that all children of these women were suffering from thalassemia. And that the positive consanguinity in there familis was 65.9%. Most of the cases of thalassemia were found in the area around Damascus and at the Syrian coast (North west Syria). Untill now in Syria there is No center for thalassaemia that can diangnose and Treat and manage thalassaemia patients, So many Patients travel to other countries who have Such centers, the nearest center is in Cyprus, but the costs a in Money and time were very high. The affected women were sent to Cyprus where prenatal diagnostic methods were done during pregnancy, Prenatal and Postnatal Diagnosis were the same.