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For persons with hemophilia and other bleeding disorders
Anyone in need of emergency medical assistance should call 911 or go to
your nearest hospital emergency room.
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For patients and families from the Louisiana Comprehensive Hemophilia
Center: If you are in need of factor products please call Gulf States
Hemophilia and Thrombophilia Center in Houston, TX
800-464-1440
713-500-8360
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If you need a consultation from the Louisiana Comprehensive Hemophilia
Center, please call any of the following numbers and please keep trying
until you get through:
573-582-0826
504-390-2057
504-390-2152
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Anyone who has been relocated to the Houston area contact the Gulf States
Hemophilia and Thrombosis Center at 713.500.8360. They can provide
treatment and referral.
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If you have been relocated to the Southeast, contact one of the following:
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The Emory University hemophilia and thrombophilia office in Atlanta at
404.727.1608 during the day or 404.778.5000 in the evening.
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University of Alabama, Birmingham Medical Center at 205.939.9285.
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University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, Pediatric
Hematology/Oncology at 601.984.2716. Phone service there is erratic, but
the center is open and operating.
For a full list of federally-funded
Hemophilia
Treatment Centers, click here.
If you need more information, please contact the National Hemophilia
Foundation Information Resource Center – HANDI – at 800-42-HANDI.
Date: September 20, 2005
Content source: National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental
Disabilities
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