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Acta Haematol (2023) 146 (6): 458–464.
Published Online: 11 August 2023
... insight for improving the clinical management of patients with different types of thalassemia. Hemoglobin H disease β-Thalassemia Splenectomy Iron overload Thalassemia is one of the most common monogenic genetic disorders worldwide, with a region-specific distribution that generally overlaps...
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Hematology , Oncology
Acta Haematol (2021) 144 (3): 332–336.
Published Online: 02 October 2020
... months in grade 2; 33.2 ± 16.4%, median 144 ± 18 months in grade 1; p = 0.011); bone marrow iron overload ( p = 0.003; HR 1.7) and transfusion dependency (0.001; HR 2.6) negatively impacted on survival. We suggest that a higher grade of iron storage at diagnosis can impact on the outcome in MDS patients...
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Hematology , Oncology
Acta Haematol (2019) 141 (4): 256–260.
Published Online: 09 April 2019
...Soumitra Tole; Ali Amid; Jillian Baker; Kevin Kuo; Jakob Pugi; Manuel Carcao Hereditary spherocytosis (HS) is a common inherited haemolytic anaemia and has great variability in its presentation. Non-transfusion iron overload in HS has only been reported with co-inheritance of hereditary...
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Acta Haematol (2016) 135 (4): 200–207.
Published Online: 28 January 2016
...Claire Sheeran; Donald K. Bowden; Sant-Rayn Pasricha; Ken Cheng; Giovanni Romanelli; Roger E. Peverill Background/Aims: Hemoglobin H (HbH) disease is associated with iron overload, but whether this results in serious cardiac or vascular sequelae is unresolved. Methods: We identified 39 adult...
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Hematology , Oncology
Acta Haematol (2014) 131 (4): 222–226.
Published Online: 05 December 2013
... for iron overload, (2) it could confirm the association between free iron and early HSCT toxicity and complications and (3) it is a potential target for iron chelators. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the kinetics of LPI levels in HSCT patients by obtaining sequential LPI determinations...
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Acta Haematol (2013) 130 (2): 64–73.
Published Online: 26 August 2013
... and safety of oral iron chelators, and noninvasive techniques for the assessment of iron overload are translated into better patient outcomes. The construction of TM management guidelines facilitated the incorporation of such evidence into practice. However, as several aspects of the management of TM remain...
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Hematology , Oncology
Acta Haematol (2012) 128 (1): 28–32.
Published Online: 15 May 2012
... (exon 7, c.809A→T), a mutation previously reported only in 1 black patient with iron overload who resided in the Republic of South Africa. The present patient was also heterozygous for: heme transporter FLVCR1 novel allele P542S (exon 10, 1624C→T); FLVCR1 T544M (rs3207090); hemopexin (HPX) R371W...
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Acta Haematol (2010) 124 (4): 191–196.
Published Online: 02 November 2010
...-thalassaemia, perhaps due to the toxic effect of iron overload on adipose tissue. Paradoxically, adiponectin levels are high and positively correlated with endothelin-1, raising questions about the pro- or anti-inflammatory role of this adipocytokine in beta-thalassaemia. 14 04 2010 3 08 2010 2...
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Acta Haematol (2009) 122 (2-3): 134–139.
Published Online: 10 November 2009
... therapy although a randomized trial of phlebotomy versus no treatment has never been reported. Since the discovery of the HFE gene in 1996, it has been possible to predict the risk of developing iron overload by a simple blood test to detect C282Y homozygotes of the HFE gene. The application...
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Hematology , Oncology
Acta Haematol (1977) 57 (2): 96–101.
Published Online: 03 March 2009
...M. Westerhausen; G. Meuret A 71-year-old woman showed a highly unusual pattern of iron distribution in the organism which was associated with iron overload. The hallmark of this disease was an extreme hypersiderinemia, the serum iron reaching about 800 μ g/l00 ml. There was a pigment cirrhosis...
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Acta Haematol (1979) 61 (4): 209–215.
Published Online: 03 March 2009
... levels and unit of blood transfused on the other. The results of this study suggest that iron overload could be a cause of damage in the high frequency elements of the auditory mechanism. Intermittent hypoxia and slow 8th nerve compression due to bony hypertrophy as causes of auditory involvement...
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Hematology , Oncology
Acta Haematol (1980) 64 (5): 271–275.
Published Online: 27 February 2009
... was significantly higher than normal values indicating tissue excess and came down sharply after treatment with iron. In thalassaemia, associated presumably with iron overload, ascorbic acid status of platelets was definitely lower than normal indicating tissue deficiency. Leucocytic level of ascorbic acid...
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Acta Haematol (1981) 65 (1): 32–39.
Published Online: 27 February 2009
... active hepatitis, 23 with chronic persistent hepatitis, 22 with siderosis). Viral marker studies showed only 3 cases with both HBsAg and anti-HBc posiüvity in the serum, while the others had anti-HBc and anti-HBs or only anti-HBs or no B viral markers. A significantly higher iron overload was found...