Challenges associated with prolonged survival of patients with thalassemia: Transitioning from childhood to adulthood

Pediatrics

Volumn 121, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Musallam, Khaled ^a   Cappellini, Maria D ^b   Taher, Ali ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Health care transition; Psychosocial; Thalassemia

Indexed keywords

DEFEROXAMINE; IRON CHELATING AGENT;

ADULTHOOD; AGING; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CHILDHOOD; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EDUCATION; GENDER; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INDEPENDENCE; LIFESPAN; LIFESTYLE; MARRIAGE; MATURATION; MENTAL DISEASE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; OSTEOPOROSIS; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIGION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIOECONOMICS; SURVIVAL TIME; THALASSEMIA; WORK; ADULT; CHILD; PATIENT CARE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE;

ADULT; CHILD; CONTINUITY OF PATIENT CARE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MENTAL DISORDERS; QUALITY OF LIFE; THALASSEMIA;

EID: 44449159489     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2007-1944     Document Type: Article

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