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Association between serum ferritin level, cardiac and hepatic T2-star MRI in patients with major β-thalassemia
BACKGROUND: Frequent blood transfusion is often associated with iron overload. Proper use of iron chelators to treat iron overload requires an accurate measurement of iron levels. Magnetic resonance T2-star (T2* MRI) can measure iron level in the heart and liver. Our goal was to see whether an assoc...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences
2014
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3980017/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24734159 |