Quality of life among children with beta-thalassemia major treated in western Saudi Arabia

Saudi Medical Journal

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1281-1286

  Ayoub, Mohammed D ^a   Radi, Suhaib A ^b   Azab, Abdulrahman M ^a   Abulaban, Abdulrahman A ^a   Balkhoyor, Abdulrahman H ^a   Bedair, Seif Eleslam W ^a   Aljaouni, Soad K ^a   Kari, Jameela A ^a  

^a KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b KING SAUD BIN ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY FOR HEALTH SCIENCES   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFERASIROX; DEFERIPRONE; DEFEROXAMINE; GLOBIN;

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; ALPHA THALASSEMIA; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BETA THALASSEMIA; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ELECTROPHORESIS; FEMALE; FERRITIN BLOOD LEVEL; HEMOGLOBINOPATHY; HUMAN; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; QUALITY OF LIFE; SAUDI ARABIA; SCHOOL CHILD; SICKLE CELL BETA THALASSEMIA; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SPLENECTOMY; THALASSEMIA MAJOR; BETA-THALASSEMIA;

ADOLESCENT; BETA-THALASSEMIA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; QUALITY OF LIFE; SAUDI ARABIA;

EID: 84891074913     PISSN: 03795284     EISSN: 16583175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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