Pregnancy in beta-thalassemia intermedia: 20-year experience of a Greek thalassemia center

European Journal of Haematology

Volumn 93, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 492-499

  Voskaridou, Ersi ^a   Balassopoulou, Angeliki ^a   Boutou, Effrossyni ^a   Komninaka, Veroniki ^a   Christoulas, Dimitrios ^b   Dimopoulou, Maria ^a   Delaki, Evangelia Eleni ^a   Loukopoulos, Dimitris ^c   Terpos, Evangelos ^d  

^a KAT HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b 251 GENERAL AIR FORCE HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^c BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Pregnancy; Thalassemia intermedia; Transfusion

Indexed keywords

DEFERASIROX; HEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CHILD WELFARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HEMOLYSIS; HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL AGE; MATERNAL WELFARE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT MONITORING; PERSONALIZED MEDICINE; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPASTIC PARAPLEGIA; SPLENOMEGALY; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; THALASSEMIA INTERMEDIA; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; BETA-THALASSEMIA; FOLLOW UP; GREECE; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, HEMATOLOGIC; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; SPLENECTOMY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; BETA-THALASSEMIA; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GESTATIONAL AGE; GREECE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, HEMATOLOGIC; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; SPLENECTOMY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84911413267     PISSN: 09024441     EISSN: 16000609     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ejh.12387     Document Type: Article

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