Thalassemia major is the most common monogenetic disorder worldwide, manifested as chronic hemolytic anemia. This condition leads to need for blood transfusion be monitored an iron overload that may stored in several tissues and organs, including cardiomyocytes, might cause a broad spectrum of cardiac toxicities such heart failure conduction delays, myocarditis, arrhythmias. Non-invasive imagin...

BACKGROUND Turner syndrome (gonadal dysgenesis with sex chromosome abnormalities) is recognized to be a disorder in which cardiovascular malformations are common. The prevalence and natural history of these findings, the risk for aortic dissection, and the occurrence of cardiovascular disease have all been the subject of debate, as have been the American Academy of Pediatrics recommendations fo...