Chelation therapy in patients with thalassemia using the orally active iron chelator deferiprone (L1)

Haematologica

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 115-117

  Rombos, Yannis ^a,b   Tzanetea, Revecca ^a   Konstantopoulos, Kostas ^a   Simitzis, Spyros ^a   Zervas, Cherry ^a   Kyriaki, Penny ^a   Kavouklis, Manolis ^a   Aessopos, Athanasios ^a   Sakellaropoulos, Nikolaos ^a   Karagiorga, Markisia ^a   Kalotychou, Vassiliki ^a   Loukopoulos, Dimitris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Deferiprone; Iron; Thalassemia; Transfusion

Indexed keywords

DEFERIPRONE; FERRITIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM FUNCTION DISORDER; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; FERRITIN BLOOD LEVEL; HEMOSIDEROSIS; HUMAN; IRON OVERLOAD; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; THALASSEMIA;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; HUMANS; IRON CHELATING AGENTS; PYRIDONES; THALASSEMIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0034044427     PISSN: 03906078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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