Effect of deferiprone or deferoxamine on right ventricular function in thalassemia major patients with myocardial iron overload

BACKGROUND: Thalassaemia major (TM) patients need regular blood transfusions that lead to accumulation of iron and death from heart failure. Deferiprone has been reported to be superior to deferoxamine for the removal of cardiac iron and improvement in left ventricular (LV) function but little is kn...

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Main Authors: Smith, Gillian C, Alpendurada, Francisco, Carpenter, John Paul, Alam, Mohammed H, Berdoukas, Vasili, Karagiorga, Markissia, Ladis, Vasili, Piga, Antonio, Aessopos, Athanassios, Gotsis, Efstathios D, Tanner, Mark A, Westwood, Mark A, Galanello, Renzo, Roughton, Michael, Pennell, Dudley J
Format: Artigo
Sprog:Inglês
Udgivet: BioMed Central 2011
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Research
Online adgang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3148987/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21733147
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1532-429X-13-34
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