A sensitive test for early myocardial iron loading
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A sensitive test for early myocardial iron loading.
A third of patients born with thalassaemia major in the UK die, usually from iron-induced cardiomyopathy by the age of 35. Daily subcutaneous infusions of the iron-chelating drug desferrioxamine have been used since 1976 to prevent ironinduced organ damage, especially to the heart, but also to the liver and endocrine organs. Noncompliance is, however, the major cause for failure of this iron-ch...
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عنوان ژورنال: European Heart Journal
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0195-668X
DOI: 10.1016/s0195-668x(02)00464-5