Estimates of the effect on hepatic iron of oral deferiprone compared with subcutaneous desferrioxamine for treatment of iron overload in thalassemia major: a systematic review

Background Beta thalassemia major requires regular blood transfusions and iron chelation to alleviate the harmful accumulation of iron. Evidence on the efficacy and safety of the available agents, desferrioxamine and deferiprone, is derived from small, non-comparative, heterogeneous observational st...
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Caro, J Jaime [verfasserIn]

Huybrechts, Krista F

Green, Traci C

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E-Artikel

Sprache:

Englisch

Erschienen:

2002

Schlagwörter:

Thalassemia

Individual Patient Data

Desferrioxamine

Deferiprone

Hepatic Iron

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© Caro et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2002. This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article: verbatim copying and redistribution of this article are permitted in all media for any purpose, provided this notice is preserved along with the article's original URL.

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Enthalten in: BMC hematology - London : BioMed Central, 2013, 2(2002), 1 vom: 20. Nov.

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volume:2 ; year:2002 ; number:1 ; day:20 ; month:11

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DOI / URN:

10.1186/1471-2326-2-4

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SPR02763776X

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