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On myocardial siderosis and left ventricular dysfunction in hemochromatosis.
Journal of cardiovascular magnetic resonance : official journal of the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance - 19 Mar 2013
Carpenter John-Paul, Grasso Agata E, Porter John B, Shah Farrukh, Dooley James, Pennell Dudley J
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BACKGROUND: Chronically increased intestinal iron uptake in genetic hemochromatosis (HC) may cause organ failure. Whilst iron loading from blood transfusions may cause dilated cardiomyopathy in conditions such as thalassemia, the in-vivo prevalence of myocardial siderosis in HC is unclear, and its relation to left ventricular (LV) dysfunction is controversial. Most previous data on myocardial siderosis in HC has...
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