 Thalassemia
"Thalassemia" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A group of hereditary hemolytic anemias in which there is decreased synthesis of one or more hemoglobin polypeptide chains. There are several genetic types with clinical pictures ranging from barely detectable hematologic abnormality to severe and fatal anemia.
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D013789
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C15.378.071.141.150.875 C15.378.420.826 C16.320.070.875 C16.320.365.826
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Fung EB, Xu Y, Trachtenberg F, Odame I, Kwiatkowski JL, Neufeld EJ, Thompson AA, Boudreaux J, Quinn CT, Vichinsky EP. Inadequate dietary intake in patients with thalassemia. J Acad Nutr Diet. 2012 Jul; 112(7):980-90.
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Kwiatkowski JL, Kim HY, Thompson AA, Quinn CT, Mueller BU, Odame I, Giardina PJ, Vichinsky EP, Boudreaux JM, Cohen AR, Porter JB, Coates T, Olivieri NF, Neufeld EJ. Chelation use and iron burden in North American and British thalassemia patients: a report from the Thalassemia Longitudinal Cohort. Blood. 2012 Mar 22; 119(12):2746-53.
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Jamuar SS, Lai AH, Tan AM, Chan MY, Tan ES, Ng IS. Use of deferiprone for iron chelation in patients with transfusion-dependent thalassaemia. J Paediatr Child Health. 2011 Nov; 47(11):812-7.
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Benz EJ, Wu CC, Sohani AR. Case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Case 25-2011. A 62-year-old woman with anemia and paraspinal masses. N Engl J Med. 2011 Aug 18; 365(7):648-58.
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Morris CR, Kim HY, Trachtenberg F, Wood J, Quinn CT, Sweeters N, Kwiatkowski JL, Thompson AA, Giardina PJ, Boudreaux J, Olivieri NF, Porter JB, Neufeld EJ, Vichinsky EP. Risk factors and mortality associated with an elevated tricuspid regurgitant jet velocity measured by Doppler-echocardiography in thalassemia: a Thalassemia Clinical Research Network report. Blood. 2011 Oct 6; 118(14):3794-802.
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Trachtenberg F, Vichinsky E, Haines D, Pakbaz Z, Mednick L, Sobota A, Kwiatkowski J, Thompson AA, Porter J, Coates T, Giardina PJ, Olivieri N, Yamashita R, Neufeld EJ. Iron chelation adherence to deferoxamine and deferasirox in thalassemia. Am J Hematol. 2011 May; 86(5):433-6.
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Quinn CT, Johnson VL, Kim HY, Trachtenberg F, Vogiatzi MG, Kwiatkowski JL, Neufeld EJ, Fung E, Oliveri N, Kirby M, Giardina PJ. Renal dysfunction in patients with thalassaemia. Br J Haematol. 2011 Apr; 153(1):111-7.
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Thompson AA, Cunningham MJ, Singer ST, Neufeld EJ, Vichinsky E, Yamashita R, Giardina P, Kim HY, Trachtenberg F, Kwiatkowski JL. Red cell alloimmunization in a diverse population of transfused patients with thalassaemia. Br J Haematol. 2011 Apr; 153(1):121-8.
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Sobota A, Yamashita R, Xu Y, Trachtenberg F, Kohlbry P, Kleinert DA, Giardina PJ, Kwiatkowski JL, Foote D, Thayalasuthan V, Porter JB, Thompson AA, Schilling L, Quinn CT, Neufeld EJ. Quality of life in thalassemia: a comparison of SF-36 results from the thalassemia longitudinal cohort to reported literature and the US norms. Am J Hematol. 2011 Jan; 86(1):92-5.
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Hsieh MM, Wu CJ, Tisdale JF. In mixed hematopoietic chimerism, the donor red cells win. Haematologica. 2011 Jan; 96(1):13-5.
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