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Extensive iron overload in bone marrow: A cause of pancytopenia in a thalassemia major patient – A case report
Iron overload-associated organ damage in transfusion-dependent anemias is a well-known phenomenon. Here, we discuss a case of 28-year-old, poorly chelated thalassemia major patient, whose blood workup revealed pancytopenia and moderately raised serum ferritin levels. His bone marrow examination was...
Autores principales: | Ali, Maria, Ali, Sidra Asad, Mansoori, Huma |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Wolters Kluwer - Medknow
2020
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7983133/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33767550 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ajts.AJTS_11_18 |
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