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Major Thalassemia, Screening or Treatment: An Economic Evaluation Study in Iran [PDF]
International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2022 BackgroundBeta-thalassemia minor and thalassemia major are an autosomal recessive disease with hypochromic, microcytic anemia, and morbidities, Today, therapeutic advances have significantly improved the life expectancy of thalassemia major patients, but
Firooz Esmaeilzadeh +4 more
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Osteoporosis in Thalassemia Major
Türk Osteoporoz Dergisi, 2012 Thalassemia Major is an inherited blood disorder which leads to ineffective erythropoiesis, bone marrow expansion, and skeletal deformity. In the last two decades the survival of the patients has improved considerably and osteoporosis has become a serious burden.
Pembe Hare Yiğitoğlu, Rengin Güzel
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Prevalence of Candida albicans in the oral cavity of Beta Thalassemia Major and Thalassemia Minor Patients [version 2; peer review: 2 approved] [PDF]
F1000ResearchAims To examine the correlation between iron, ferritin concentrations, and C. albicans infection in individuals with beta-thalassemia major and beta-thalassemia minor compared with healthy subjects.
Maha Adel Mahmood +1 more
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The Professional Medical Journal, 2018 Background: Â-thalassemia is a common single genetic disorder in Pakistanwith about 8% gene frequency and roughly 10 million carriers. Growth impairment leadingto short stature in thalassemic patients is an important cause of morbidity. Objectives: Todetermine the frequency of short stature in children with muti-transfused â-Thalassemia major.Study ...
Muhammad Shamaoon +2 more
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The survival rate of patients with beta-thalassemia major and intermedia and its trends in recent years in Iran [PDF]
Epidemiology and Health, 2018 OBJECTIVES Thalassemia is a common genetic disease in Iran, especially in the north and south of Iran. The present study sought to determine the survival rate of patients with thalassemia in highly endemic regions of Iran and its variation in patients ...
Alireza Ansari-Moghaddam +4 more
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Insulin-like growth factor-1 levels in children with Beta-thalassemia minor [PDF]
Turkish Journal of Hematology, 2008 Objective: Growth retardation in children with b-thalassemia major is multifactorial. Some etiologies described for this condition are hemochromatosis, disturbed growth hormone (GH) / insulin growth factor-1 (IGF-1) axis, undernutrition and ...
Mehran Karimi +2 more
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Cardiac complications in thalassemia major
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2016 The myocardium is particularly susceptible to complications from iron loading in thalassemia major. In the first years of life, severe anemia leads to high‐output cardiac failure and death if not treated. The necessary supportive blood transfusions create loading of iron that cannot be naturally excreted, and this iron accumulates within tissues ...
Auger, D, Pennell, DJ
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Thalassemia Major and Associated Psychosocial Problems: A Narrative Review
Iranian Journal of Public Health, 2022 Thalassemia is an inherited disease that causes the production of damaged hemoglobin chains. Patients are diagnosed with thalassemia major due to major clinical signs and deep anemia.
Hazel Şahin Tarım, Fatma Öz
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Annals of Global Health, 2021 Background: Blood transfusion is a traditional treatment for β-thalassemia (β-thal) that improves the patients’ anemia and lifespan, but it may lead to iron overload in parenchymal tissue organs and endocrine glands that cause their dysfunctions as the ...
M. Arab-Zozani +3 more
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