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Rapid iron loading in a pregnant woman with transfusion-dependent thalassemia after brief cessation of iron chelation therapy

In general, in women with transfusion-dependent thalassemia, during pregnancy, iron chelation therapy is ceased. We report a splenectomized patient, who was an excellent complier with chelation therapy, who before embarking on a pregnancy showed no evidence of iron overload, with normal cardiac, thy...

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Autores principales: Farmaki, Kallistheni, Gotsis, Efstathios, Tzoumari, Ioanna, Berdoukas, Vasilios
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2607536/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18462251
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0609.2008.01092.x