Objective: To determine the awareness among student of Pharm D, MBBS and general population with thalassemia major (TM) regarding the disease. Methods: This (cross sectional) study was conducted among students of MBBS, Pharm. D in different private and government sector universities in Karachi having close ended questions related to their knowledge about thalassemia from Sep 2013 to October 201...

Title: Effect of health education on severe thalassemia prevention and control in communities in Cambodia Authors: Kimhaung Cheng ([email protected]) Supan Fucharoen ([email protected]) Kanokwan Sanchaisuriya ([email protected]) Goonnapa Fucharoen ([email protected]) Pattara Sanchaisuriya ([email protected]) Arunee Jetsrisuparb ([email protected]) Version: 2 Date: 11 Sep 2017 Author’s response t...

Thalassemia is a hereditary blood disorder that results from genetic defects causing deficient synthesis of hemoglobin polypeptide chains. Although thalassemia mostly affects developing countries, there is limited knowledge of its accurate frequency and distribution in these regions. Knowing the prevalence of thalassemia and the frequency of responsible mutations is therefore an important step ...

hepatitis c is an emerging disease in the world and iran. in this review the situation in iran will be more clarified and the strategies for better control will be discussed.

Background: Thalassemia is the most prevalent genetic disorder in humans. It is caused by the deficient or lack of production of one of the globin chains. The present study aimed to evaluate the performance indicators of Behbahan Health Center, Iran in terms of the prevention of thalassemia major during 2006-2016. Methods: This descriptive, cross-sectional study was conducted on the couples re...

Background: Thalassemia, a congenital disorder of hemoglobin synthesis is characterized by low and high iron status, prevalent in Bangladesh. Iron, consumed through drinking groundwater also increases the population status The study examined effect containing micronutrient powder (MNP) on ferritin Bangladeshi children with thalassemia their non-thalassemia peers exposed to concentration from gr...

BACKGROUND Thalassemia is the most common inherited disease in southern China. However, this disorder is usually ignored by Jiangxi provincial health system and government due to lack of epidemiological data. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 9489 samples from Hakka Han and Gan-speaking Han in three geographical areas of Jiangxi Province were analyzed for both complete blood cell (CBC) count a...

objective: pre-natal diagnosis is the most effected way to prevent genetic diseases in a society. the aim of this research was to show the prevention level of the birth of the children with major thalassemia disorder and the demographic condition of the people referring to the shahid dastgheib genetic center in shiraz for the pre natal diagnosis. materials and methods: the present research was ...

The success that has been made in the care of patients with thalassemia has led to the emergence of unrecognized complications including several renal abnormalities. Chronic anemia and iron overload as well as the use of iron chelator are believed to lie behind these abnormalities. Many investigators document the presence of tubular dysfunction and abnormalities in glomerular filtration rate in...

abstract background thalassemia patients that are conventionally treated by a regular transfusion regimen are exposed to blood born viral infections.the aim of this study was to investigate the seroprevalence of hepatitis b virus (hbv), hepatitis c virus (hcv) , and human immunodeficiency virus(hiv) among all multitransfused thalassemia patients in west north of iran. material and methods a ret...