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The relationships between pancreatic T2* values and pancreatic iron loading with cardiac dysfunctions,  hepatic and cardiac iron siderosis among Egyptian children and young adults with β-thalassaemia major and sickle cell disease: a cross-sectional study

Background: Cardiac, hepatic and pancreatic T2* measured by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has been proven to be an accurate and non-invasive method for measuring iron overload in iron overload conditions. There is accumulating evidence that pancreatic iron can predict cardiac iron in young childr...

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Autores principales: Salama, Khaled, Abdelsalam, Amina, Eldin, Hadeel Seif, Youness, Eman, Selim, Yasmeen, Salama, Christine, Hassanein, Gehad, Samir, Mohamed, Zekri, Hanan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: F1000 Research Limited 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8261758/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34249348
http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.25943.2