Complications of β-thalassemia intermedia: A 12-year Lebanese experience

American Journal of Hematology

Volumn 83, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 605-606

  Taher, Ali ^a,b   El Rassi, Fuad ^a   Ismaeel, Hussain ^a   Inati, Adlette ^b,c  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

^b Chronic Care Center Hazmieh   (Lebanon)

^c RAFIC HARIRI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERRITIN; HEMOGLOBIN;

BETA THALASSEMIA; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CHELATION THERAPY; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE COURSE; EXTRAMEDULLARY HEMATOPOIESIS; FEMALE; FERRITIN BLOOD LEVEL; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; HYPOGONADISM; HYPOTHYROIDISM; INCIDENCE; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LEBANON; LEG ULCER; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; SPLENECTOMY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURVIVAL; THROMBOSIS;

BETA-THALASSEMIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEBANON; MALE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 45749121988     PISSN: 03618609     EISSN: 10968652     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajh.21174     Document Type: Letter

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