Complications of HbH disease in adulthood

British Journal of Haematology

Volumn 167, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 136-139

  Sheeran, Claire ^a   Weekes, Kerryn ^a   Shaw, Joanne ^a   Pasricha, Sant Rayn ^a,b  

^a SOUTHERN HEALTH   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ageing; HbH Disease; Iron; Osteoporosis; Thalassaemia

Indexed keywords

FERRITIN; HEMOGLOBIN H;

ADULT; ADULTHOOD; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BONE DENSITY; CHOLELITHIASIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FERRITIN BLOOD LEVEL; GENE DELETION; GENOTYPE; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HEMOGLOBIN H DISEASE; HEPATOMEGALY; HUMAN; IRON OVERLOAD; LIVER HEMOSIDEROSIS; MALE; MEAN CORPUSCULAR HEMOGLOBIN; MEAN CORPUSCULAR VOLUME; OSTEOPENIA; OSTEOPOROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN SIZE; SPLENOMEGALY; ALPHA-THALASSEMIA; AUSTRALIA; COMPLICATION;

ADULT; ALPHA-THALASSEMIA; AUSTRALIA; HUMANS;

EID: 84909947945     PISSN: 00071048     EISSN: 13652141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/bjh.12932     Document Type: Article

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