Comparison of myocardial and hepatic iron loading, assessed by MRI T2*, in patients with myelodysplastic syndromes, thalassaemia major and controls

Blood Transfusion

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 237-240

  Mavrogeni, Sophie ^a  

^a ONASSIS CARDIAC SURGERY CENTER   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFEROXAMINE; FERRITIN;

ADULT; ALLOGENEIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASE; BACKACHE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CARDIAC PATIENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; FEMALE; FERRITIN BLOOD LEVEL; HEART FUNCTION; HEART HEMOSIDEROSIS; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART OUTPUT; HUMAN; IRON CHELATION; IRON OVERLOAD; LETTER; LIVER HEMOSIDEROSIS; LIVER TOXICITY; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROGNOSIS; PULSE RATE; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; SIDEROBLASTIC ANEMIA; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STUDENT T TEST; THALASSEMIA MAJOR; TREATMENT DURATION;

ADULT; BETA-THALASSEMIA; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRON; LIVER; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROMES; MYOCARDIUM;

EID: 84860542768     PISSN: 17232007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2450/2011.0084-11     Document Type: Letter

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