Response to hydroxyurea therapy in beta-thalassemia.

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Although a relatively small number of previous studies suggest a modest response to hydroxyurea (HU) therapy in beta-thalassemia, more recent investigations have revealed that some transfusion-dependent patients can become transfusion-independent following HU therapy. Patients with Ggamma XmnI polymorphism, several beta-globin mutations, and alpha-thalassemia deletions were inconsistently reported to have...

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