Volume 13, Issue 2 ( June 2021 2021)                   Iranian Journal of Blood and Cancer 2021, 13(2): 62-64 | Back to browse issues page

XML Print


1- Department of Pediatrics, Kasturba Medical College and Manipal Academy of Higher education (MAHE), Mangaluru, India
2- Department of Pediatrics, Kasturba Medical College and Manipal Academy of Higher education (MAHE), Mangaluru, India , harsha.pl@manipal.edu
3- Aster CMI hospital, Bangalore, India
4- Regional advanced pediatric care center, Mangaluru, India
Abstract:   (2397 Views)

Regular packed cell transfusion in patients with thalassemia major leads to iron overload. Chelation therapy is one of the important aspects of thalassemia care as iron overload causes significant cardiac, hepatic, and endocrine dysfunction. We report a case of thalassemia major with severe iron overload causing cardiac and liver dysfunction who benefitted from triple drug chelation therapy. Triple iron chelation therapy in thalassemia major could be suggested in severe iron overload patients.

Full-Text [PDF 396 kb]   (1259 Downloads)    
: Case report | Subject: Pediatric Hematology & Oncology
Received: 2020/05/9 | Accepted: 2021/06/9 | Published: 2021/07/15

Rights and permissions
Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.