Thalassemia heart disease: A comparative evaluation of thalassemia major and thalassemia intermedia

Chest

Volumn 127, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1523-1530

  Aessopos, Athanasios ^a,b   Farmakis, Dimitrios ^a   Deftereos, Spyros ^a   Tsironi, Maria ^a   Tassiopoulos, Stergios ^a   Moyssakis, Ioannis ^b   Karagiorga, Markisia ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b LAIKO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^c AGHIA SOPHIA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Deferoxamine; Heart failure; Iron chelation; Pulmonary hypertension; Thalassemia; Transfusions

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BETA THALASSEMIA; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CHELATION THERAPY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART DISEASE; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART OUTPUT; HUMAN; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; THALASSEMIA; THALASSEMIA INTERMEDIA; THALASSEMIA MAJOR; COMORBIDITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; BETA-THALASSEMIA; CARDIAC OUTPUT; COMORBIDITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; MALE; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 19844374111     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.127.5.1523     Document Type: Article

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