Recombinant erythropoietin vs. blood transfusion care in infants with hereditary spherocytosis: a retrospective cohort study of A.I.E.O.P. patients (Associazione Italiana Emato-Oncologia Pediatrica)

Improvement of heart iron with preserved patterns of iron store by CMR-guided chelation therapy

[Formula: see text] multislice multiecho cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) allows quantification of the segmental distribution of myocardial iron overload (MIO). We evaluated whether a preferential pattern MIO was preserved between two CMR scans in regularly chelated thalassaemia major (TM) patients.We evaluated prospectively 259 TM patients enrolled in the MIO in Thalassaemia (MIOT) network with a CMR follow-up (FU) study at 18 ± 3 months and significant MIO at baseline. The [Formula: see text] in the 16 segments and the global value were calculated. Four main circumferential regions (anterior, septal, inferior and lateral) were defined. We identified two groups: severe (n = 80, global [For…