Thyroid hormone profile in beta-thalassemia major children
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Thyroid hormone profile in beta-thalassemia major children.
Thalassemia is the most common genetic disorder worldwide. The striking increase in survival of these patients over the past decade has focused attention on abnormal endocrine function, now the most prevalent iron-induced complication in older patients. Trans-fusion related iron overload is the primary therapeutic complication in thalassemia major. Hemosiderosis of various endocrine glands incl...
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عنوان ژورنال: Bangladesh Medical Research Council Bulletin
سال: 2009
ISSN: 2224-7238,0377-9238
DOI: 10.3329/bmrcb.v35i2.2534