Athanasios Fassas introduced the autologous hematopoietic cell transplants to the hematology section of Papanikolaou Hospital for the first time in Greece
The doctor left his life Athanasios Fassaswhich in its long run marked the evolution of hematology in Greece by introducing salvation treatments for the first time for people suffering from hematological diseases.
Their condolences are expressed by hospital administration Papanikolaou and her staff Hematologywhich bears his name. His political funeral will take place today at 2pm in the “Billis” ceremony hall opposite the Lord’s Resurrection Cemeteries.
Who was Athanasios Fassas
Athanasios Fassas was born in Thessaloniki. He studied medicine at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and continued his studies in hematology, oncology and immunology at the Institute of Oncology and Immunogenetics in Paris. He specialized in marrow transplantation at the Cantonic Hospital of Basel of Switzerland and was involved in marrow freezing techniques and automotives at the Saint-Antoine Hospital in Paris.
When he returned to Greece he worked at the AUTH Educational Pathology Clinic at the “Hagia Sophia” With the launch of the NHS, he took over as director of the newly established hematology clinic of the “G. Papanikolaou »in 1986. Athanasios Fassas was the first director of the hematology department from 1986 to 2010. He introduced autologous hematopoietic cell transplants to the hematology section of Papanikolaou Hospital for the first time in Greece.
In 1983 he introduced to Greece Use of Greatnessthat is, High -dose chemotherapy and in 1985 the bone marrow automotive to deal with her leukemia and of their lymphoma. His pioneering studies continued in 1990 with the introduction of the marrow cold freezing method in liquid nitrogen and the performed bone marrow transplants. At the same time, the hematology department became a member of the European Bone and Bone Bone Transplant Team.
Today the transplant unit is conducting more than 60 transplants per yearwhile the total number of transplants that have been carried out to date exceeds 600. The hematology section of Papanikolaou Hospital until 1989 had 15 beds (two for transplants). The beds increased to 24 and in 1990 the transplant unit acquired 5 beds in 4 chambers. In 1998 Athanasios Fassas was appointed Secretary of the Auto -Disease Working Group of the European Bone Transplant and Bone Transplantation Society, a position he maintained for six years.
Since 2003 Athanasios Fassas in collaboration with the Department of medical genetics of University of Washingtondealt with the application of therapeutic gene therapy therapeutic protocols to treat Mediterranean anemia-customity and other congenital anemia as well as the transplant disease against the host, the most dangerous complication of bone marrow transplantation.
Source: Skai
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