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Iron Overload in Patients With Heavily Transfused Sickle Cell Disease—Correlation of Serum Ferritin With Cardiac T2(*) MRI (CMRTools), Liver T2(*) MRI, and R2-MRI (Ferriscan®)

The treatment of sickle cell disease (SCD) is mainly supportive, except for a minority, who receive bone marrow transplantation (BMT). Serum ferritin (SF) is routinely available but is notoriously unreliable as a tool for iron-overload assessment since it is an acute-phase reactant. Although blood t...

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Autores principales: Alkindi, Salam, Panjwani, Vinodh, Al-Rahbi, Sarah, Al-Saidi, Khalid, Pathare, Anil V.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8573209/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34760898
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmed.2021.731102