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PEDIATRIC HEMATOLOGY AND ONCOLOGY
Volume 29, Issue 6, Pages 579-584Publisher
INFORMA HEALTHCARE
DOI: 10.3109/08880018.2012.708891
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children; iron overload; serum ferritin; thalassemia intermedia; T2*MRI
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Nontransfused patients with thalassemia intermedia (TI) accumulate iron due to increased gastrointestinal absorption of iron. Recent studies using T2* MRI revealed that serum ferritin does not reflect the severity of iron overload in nontransfused TI patients. We evaluated the iron overload status in TI children on monthly transfusion. Based on serum ferritin levels, 11 such patients (mean age 13.18 +/- 4.09 years), were classified into two groups, group 1 (six patients) and group 2 (five patients) with serum ferritin levels belowand above 1000 ng/mL, respectively. T2* MRI assessments were done for evaluation of hepatic and cardiac iron status. Group 1 and group 2 had mean serum ferritin levels of 817.300 +/- 244.690 ng/mL and 1983.80 +/- 662.862 ng/mL, respectively (P = .003). T2* MRI showed comparable moderate to severe hepatic iron overload status in both. None of the patients had myocardial iron deposition. We conclude that serum ferritin does not reflect the hepatic iron overload status in our patients with TI on regular transfusion.
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