Optimal method for early detection of cardiac disorders in thalassemia major patients: Magnetic resonance imaging or echocardiography?

Blood Research

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 182-186

  Moussavi, Farideh ^a   Ghasabeh, Mounes Aliyari ^b   Roodpeyma, Shahla ^c   Alavi, Samin ^d   Shakiba, Majid ^b   Gheiratmand, Riaz ^a   Omidghaemi, Maryam ^a  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Echocardiography; Iron over load; Serum ferritin level; T2* mri; Thalassemia major

Indexed keywords

FERRITIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIASTOLIC DYSFUNCTION; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FERRITIN BLOOD LEVEL; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE CONTRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE RELAXATION; HEMOSIDEROSIS; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; IRON OVERLOAD; M MODE ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; SYSTOLIC DYSFUNCTION; THALASSEMIA MAJOR; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 84911432344     PISSN: 2287979X     EISSN: 22880011     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5045/br.2014.49.3.182     Document Type: Article

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