Clinical utility of serum ferritin thresholds for guiding iron chelation therapy when magnetic resonance imaging is unavailable in patients with non-transfusion-dependent thalassaemias - response to Ang et al

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Taher, Ali T. [1 ]
机构：
[1] Amer Univ Beirut, Dept Internal Med, Beirut, Lebanon
来源：
BRITISH JOURNAL OF HAEMATOLOGY | 2017年 / 176卷 / 06期
关键词：
iron overload; chelation therapy; non-transfusion dependent thalassaemia; liver iron concentration; serum ferritin; BETA-THALASSEMIA; INTERMEDIA; OVERLOAD; ALPHA;
D O I：
10.1111/bjh.14018
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R5 [内科学];
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1002 ; 100201 ;
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