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[Possibility of the development of non-transfusion hemosiderosis in beta-thalassemia, caused by association with HLA-linked hemochromatosis].
Gematologiia i transfuziologiia - 1 Mar 1990
Settarova D A, Donskov S I, Manishkina R P, Krasavtseva T K, Klinika E G
Abstract excerpt
The data of HLA-haplotyping were used as an allele marker controlling hereditary hemochromatosis in 23 patients with beta-thalassemia. The results obtained have permitted a conclusion that hemosiderosis in patients with beta-thalassemia may be caused by association of beta-thalassemia gene with hereditary hemochromatosis. Early diagnosis of hyperferremia is of great prognostic importance as the adequate treatment...
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