Estimates of the effect on hepatic iron of oral deferiprone compared with subcutaneous desferrioxamine for treatment of iron overload in thalassemia major: a systematic review

BACKGROUND: Beta thalassemia major requires regular blood transfusions and iron chelation to alleviate the harmful accumulation of iron. Evidence on the efficacy and safety of the available agents, desferrioxamine and deferiprone, is derived from small, non-comparative, heterogeneous observational s...

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Autores principales: Caro, J Jaime, Huybrechts, Krista F, Green, Traci C
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2002
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC138807/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12441006
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2326-2-4

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC138807/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12441006
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2326-2-4

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