Objective: to study the impact of haptoglobin gene polymorphism on iron overload, oxidative stress and antimullerian hormone in BTM women in Egypt. Methods: case-control study. 47 BTM women, aged between 16-26 years and 47 age-matched regularly menstruating women as control. Haptoglobin Hp1/2 gene polymorphism by PCR, Hemoglobin electrophoresis, serum haptoglobin, ferritin, malondialdehyde MDA,...

In severe human beta-thalassemia, the pathophysiology relates to accumulation of excess alpha-globin chains at the membrane. One hypothesis is that membrane-associated alpha-globin by virtue of it's iron or hemichromes produces oxidation of adjacent membrane proteins. The availability of a mouse model of severe beta-thalassemia, as well as a transgenic (thalassemic-sickle) mouse that expresses ...

β-thalassemia is one of the most common hereditary diseases in Egypt. The leading causes renal dysfunction thalassemic patients include chronic anemia, iron overload from repeated blood transfusions, and kidney-induced damage use chelators.

BACKGROUND There is strong evidence that left atrial (LA) size is a prognostic marker in a variety of heart diseases. Recently, real-time three-dimensional echocardiography (RT3DE) has been reported as a useful tool for studying the phasic changes of the left atrial volumes. The aim of this study was to investigate the performance of the left atrium in beta-thalassemic patients with preserved l...

OBJECTIVE In beta thalassemic patients, tissue damage occurs due to oxidative stress and it happens because of the accumulation of iron in the body. This study was conducted to determine the effect of zinc and vitamin E supplementation on antioxidant status in beta-thalassemic major patients. METHODS This double blind randomized clinical trial was carried out on 120 beta thalassemic patients ...

BACKGROUND Beta-thalassemia/Hemoglobin E (beta-thal/Hb E) is a congenital hemolytic anemia that is prevalent in Thailand Pulmonary arterial occlusion is the cause of morbidity and mortality in these patients. Abnormality of platelets has been implicated as pathogenesis of this condition. However the blood-borne factors that induce platelet activation are not identified Recently, oxidized low-de...

Beta-thalassemia is an inherited hematological disease caused by a decrease or absence of production of beta-globin that requires chronic therapeutic interventions. This condition leads to important arterial and venous thromboembolic events, transitory ischemic attacks, and microcirculatory obstructions, indicative of circulatory disturbances. To investigate the presence of microcirculatory dis...

background: major thalassemia is the most common form of anemia requiring blood transfusion in iran. since ribavirin provokes anemia in the treated patients, interferon monotherapy may be an appropriate treatment in major thalassemic patients. the aim of this study was to determine the safety and efficacy of interferon monotherapy in thalassemic patients with hepatitis c virus infection. materi...

Objective: The objective was to study the serological prevalence of post-transfusion transmitted infections such as hepatitis C virus (HCV), hepatitis B virus (HBV), and HIV among multi-transfused thalassemic individuals of the Eastern India and the socio and financial difficulties faced by them. Methods: The study was carried out from January 2012 until December 2014 involving 1711 thalassemic...

BACKGROUND Zinc deficiency has been reported frequently in hepatitis C patients in the literature. Furthermore, a decrease in zinc level has been shown in beta thalassemia major as well. Iranians consume a large amount of phytate in their regimens which can bind with zinc and decrease its gastrointestinal absorption. OBJECTIVES This study was designed to determine plasma zinc level in an Iran...