Scientific Literature
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Hepatocellular Carcinoma in β-Thalassemia Patients: Review of the Literature with Molecular Insight into Liver Carcinogenesis
With the continuing progress in managing patients with thalassemia, especially in the setting of iron overload and iron chelation, the life span of these patients is increasing, while concomitantly increasing…
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Nutritional Deficiencies Are Common in Patients with Transfusion-dependent Thalassemia and Associated with Iron Overload
Patients with thalassemia are frequently deficient in key micronutrients. Attempts to correct these inadequacies through nutritional supplementation have been met with some success, although disparities between intake and circulating levels…
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Prenatal and Preimplantation Diagnosis of Hemoglobinopathies
The hemoglobinopathies, as a group, are one of the most common serious monogenic diseases in the world. An accepted and widely adopted approach to reduce the number of new cases…
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