Deferiprone, iron overload in a renal transplant patient
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Role of deferiprone in chelation therapy for transfusional iron overload.
Before 1987, iron chelation therapy for patients with thalassemia major and other refractory anemias requiring regular transfusions depended almost entirely on one drug, deferoxamine. The drug has dramatically increased survival in patients with thalassemia major in countries where it is readily available.1,2 Although many other compounds had been tried as iron-chelating agents in experiments w...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: QJM
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1460-2725,1460-2393
DOI: 10.1093/qjmed/hct254