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Oral Iron Chelation Therapy With Deferiprone In Patients With Thalassemia Major, Raihan Sajid, Farooq Ghani, Salman Adil, Mohammad Khurshid
Oral Iron Chelation Therapy With Deferiprone In Patients With Thalassemia Major, Raihan Sajid, Farooq Ghani, Salman Adil, Mohammad Khurshid
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
OBJECTIVE: To determine the efficacy and adverse effects of deferiprone in patients with Thalassemia Major.
METHODS: A prospective case series study was conducted at the Fatimid Foundation Blood Bank and Haematological Diseases center Lahore. A total of 87 patients entered into the study between September 2005 and November 2006. Deferiprone was given at subsidized rates at a dose of 75/mg/day for seven days. Physical examination and initial Laboratory investigations were done in all patients at the start of the study. Physical and laboratory data were filled on a questionnaire and analyzed using SPSS version 10.0.
RESULTS: Eighty seven patients with …