Update on fertility in thalassaemia major

Pediatric Endocrinology Reviews

Volumn 2, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2004, Pages 296-302

  Skordis, Nicos ^a   Petrikkos, Loizos ^a   Toumba, Meropi ^a   Simamonian, Krikor ^b   Hadjigavriel, Michael ^b   Sitarou, Maria ^b   Kolnakou, Annita ^b   Skordos, George ^b   Pangalou, Evi ^b   Christou, Soteroulla ^b  

^a Archbishop Makarios III Hospital   (Cyprus)

^b Thalassemia Centers   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

Fertility; Pregnancy; Thalassemia

Indexed keywords

DEFEROXAMINE; ESTROGEN; FERRITIN; GONADOTROPIN; PROGESTERONE;

AZOOSPERMIA; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CESAREAN SECTION; CONCEPTION; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG MEGADOSE; FEMALE FERTILITY; FERRITIN BLOOD LEVEL; HEART FUNCTION; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HEMOSIDEROSIS; HUMAN; HYPEREMESIS GRAVIDARUM; HYPOGONADOTROPIC HYPOGONADISM; IMPAIRED GLUCOSE TOLERANCE; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; IRON CHELATION; IRON OVERLOAD; LIFESPAN; MALE FERTILITY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; OVARY DISEASE; OVARY FUNCTION; OVULATION INDUCTION; PATIENT MONITORING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY RATE; PREMATURE LABOR; PRENATAL CARE; PRIMARY AMENORRHEA; QUALITY OF LIFE; SECONDARY AMENORRHEA; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; STILLBIRTH; THALASSEMIA MAJOR; THROMBOPHLEBITIS; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL; VAGINAL DELIVERY;

ADULT; BETA-THALASSEMIA; CHELATION THERAPY; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HUMANS; HYPOGONADISM; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, HEMATOLOGIC; PREGNANCY OUTCOME;

EID: 19944432283     PISSN: 15654753     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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