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An international survey of patients with thalassemia major and their views about sustaining life-long desferrioxamine use

BACKGROUND: Management of thalassemia major requires patients to have life-long access to a treatment regimen of regular blood transfusions coupled with iron chelation therapy. The objective of this study was to investigate patients' reasons for missing iron chelation therapy with desferrioxami...

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Autores principales: Ward, Alexandra, Caro, J Jaime, Green, Traci Craig, Huybrechts, Krista, Arana, Alejandro, Wait, Suzanne, Eleftheriou, Androulla
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2002
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC111194/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12015817
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6904-2-3