Association between serum ferritin and liver iron concentration with cardiac iron in pediatric thalassemia major patients
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Background Recently, the ability of LIC (liver iron concentration) and serum ferritin in predicting myocardial iron overload (MIO) has been challenged by magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) monitoring which demonstrated no or weak correlation between serum ferritin or LIC and MIO. Anyway, the role of this traditional markers could result particularly useful in pediatric population, where MRI assessment is difficult to carry out, because of early age, scarce collaboration or limited availability. So, we derived objective thresholds for these markers for predicting cardiac T2*<20 ms in pediatric patients.
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دوره 18 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 2016