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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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Autores principales: Eghbali, A, Taherahmadi, H, Shahbazi, M, Bagheri, B, Ebrahimi, L
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 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