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β-Thalassemia and ocular implications: a systematic review

BACKGROUND: Beta-thalassemia is a severe genetic blood disorder caused by a mutation in the gene encoding for the beta chains of hemoglobin. Individuals with beta-thalassemia major require regular lifelong Red Blood Cell transfusions to survive. Ocular involvement is quite common and may have seriou...

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Autores principales: Liaska, Aliki, Petrou, Petros, Georgakopoulos, Constantinos D., Diamanti, Ramza, Papaconstantinou, Dimitris, Kanakis, Menelaos G., Georgalas, Ilias
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4938965/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27390837
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12886-016-0285-2