Biventricular dimensions and function in pediatric sickle-cell disease and thalassemia major patients without cardiac iron
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Background Chronically anemic patients develop compensatory ventricular dilation, even when maintained on chronic transfusion regimens. Our primary goal was to compare right and left ventricular dimensions and function assessed by Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (CMR) in pediatric, chronically-transfused sickle-cell disease (SCD) and thalassemia major (TM) patients who lacked cardiac iron. Moreover we explored systematic sex differences in ventricular dimensions in both populations.
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