Pancreatic iron loading predicts cardiac iron loading in thalassemia major

Diabetes mellitus and cardiomyopathy are common in chronically transfused thalassemia major patients, occurring in the second and third decades of life. We postulated that pancreatic iron deposition would precede cardiac iron loading, representing an environment favorable for extrahepatic iron depos...

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Main Authors: Noetzli, Leila J., Papudesi, Jhansi, Coates, Thomas D., Wood, John C.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: American Society of Hematology 2009
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Clinical Trials and Observations
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2774543/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19726718
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1182/blood-2009-06-225615
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