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Thalassemia and Priapism: A Literature Review of a Rare Association

Thalassemia is a hematologic disorder caused by genetic mutation resulting in impaired hemoglobin chain production. Patients with thalassemia commonly experience complications such as anemia, blood transfusion-related issues, hepatic or cardiac involvement, and psychosocial impacts. Rarely, priapism...

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Autores principales: Sardar, Sundus, Ali, Elrazi A, Yassin, Mohamed A
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8105192/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33972896
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.14335
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author Sardar, Sundus
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description Thalassemia is a hematologic disorder caused by genetic mutation resulting in impaired hemoglobin chain production. Patients with thalassemia commonly experience complications such as anemia, blood transfusion-related issues, hepatic or cardiac involvement, and psychosocial impacts. Rarely, priapism has been associated with thalassemia as an initial presentation or subsequently occurring at any time in the disease course. Our literature review summarizes the reported cases of thalassemia-associated priapism and delves into underlying mechanisms of its pathophysiology and appropriate management.
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spelling pubmed-81051922021-05-09 Thalassemia and Priapism: A Literature Review of a Rare Association Sardar, Sundus Ali, Elrazi A Yassin, Mohamed A Cureus Internal Medicine Thalassemia is a hematologic disorder caused by genetic mutation resulting in impaired hemoglobin chain production. Patients with thalassemia commonly experience complications such as anemia, blood transfusion-related issues, hepatic or cardiac involvement, and psychosocial impacts. Rarely, priapism has been associated with thalassemia as an initial presentation or subsequently occurring at any time in the disease course. Our literature review summarizes the reported cases of thalassemia-associated priapism and delves into underlying mechanisms of its pathophysiology and appropriate management. Cureus 2021-04-07 /pmc/articles/PMC8105192/ /pubmed/33972896 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.14335 Text en Copyright © 2021, Sardar et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Sardar, Sundus
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Thalassemia and Priapism: A Literature Review of a Rare Association
title Thalassemia and Priapism: A Literature Review of a Rare Association
title_full Thalassemia and Priapism: A Literature Review of a Rare Association
title_fullStr Thalassemia and Priapism: A Literature Review of a Rare Association
title_full_unstemmed Thalassemia and Priapism: A Literature Review of a Rare Association
title_short Thalassemia and Priapism: A Literature Review of a Rare Association
title_sort thalassemia and priapism: a literature review of a rare association
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8105192/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33972896
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.14335
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