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Heart disease in thalassemia intermedia.
Hemoglobin - 1 Jan 2009
Aessopos A, Tsironi M, Andreopoulos A, Farmakis D
Abstract excerpt
Thalassemia intermedia (TI) presents with a clinical phenotype ranging between the severe, transfusion-dependent TM and the asymptomatic carrier state. Cardiovascular complications represent the primary cause of mortality both in TM and in TI. Several factors have been reported to interfere in the pathophysiology of cardiovascular abnormalities in TI, including high output state, vascular abnormalities,...
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