 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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| 1986 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2010 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Thalassemia" by people in Profiles.
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Wang ZJ, Fischer R, Chu Z, Mahoney DH, Mueller BU, Muthupillai R, James EB, Krishnamurthy R, Chung T, Padua E, Vichinsky E, Harmatz P. Assessment of cardiac iron by MRI susceptometry and R2* in patients with thalassemia. Magn Reson Imaging. 2010 Apr; 28(3):363-71.
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Maeda K, Van Slyck EJ, Hawley RC. Clinical and laboratory study of sickle cell/beta-thalassemia. Henry Ford Hosp Med J. 1986; 34(4):282-4.
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