Relation of chelation regimes to cardiac mortality and morbidity in patients with thalassaemia major: an observational study from a large Greek Unit

OBJECTIVES: Cardiac complications because of transfusional iron overload are the main cause of death in thalassaemia major. New chelators and iron monitoring methods such as cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) became available after the year 2000. We evaluated the impact of these new management options...

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Autores principales: Ladis, Vassilios, Chouliaras, Giorgos, Berdoukas, Vasilios, Moraitis, Panagiotis, Zannikos, Kirykos, Berdoussi, Eleni, Kattamis, Christos
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2970906/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20561034
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0609.2010.01491.x

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