Survival in medically treated patients with homozygous beta-thalassemia.
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...Cardiac failure secondary to transfusional iron overload remains the commonest cause of death in patients with thalassaemia major[1, 2 ]....
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...With adequate transfusion and the administration of the chelating agent, desferrioxamine, children may grow and develop well and survive into adult life (11, 12 )....
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...demonstrated a better prognosis for survival without cardiac disease in transfused patients whose ferritin concentrations remained below 2,500 ng/mL.(27) In our population, a lower ferritin concentration predicted longer survival, and reduced risk of cardiac complications and of hypogonadism, both using the ferritin values directly, and when grouped to, below or above a threshold as low as 1,000...
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