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European Heart Journal 2003 24(1):26-27; doi:10.1016/S0195-668X(02)00464-5
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Editorial

A sensitive test for early myocardial iron loading

A.V. Hoffband

Royal Free Hospital, London, UK

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See doi:10.1016/S1095-668X(02)00381-0for the article to which this editorial refers.

A third of patients born with thalassaemia major in the UK die, usually from iron-induced cardiomyopathy by the age of 35.1 Daily subcutaneous infusions of the iron-chelating drug desferrioxamine have been used since 1976 to prevent iron-induced organ damage, especially to the heart, but also to the . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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