Athanasios Zervas, Anna Katopodi, Anthi Protonotariou, Sarantis Livadas, Markesia Karagiorga, Constantina Politis, George Tolis
Despite improved hematologic care, multiendocrine dysfunction is a common complication of homozygous transfusion-dependent beta-thalassemia. In this study our goal was to estimate the prevalence of thyroid dysfunction in a large homogenous group of thalassemic patients. Two hundred patients with beta-thalassemia major (100 males and 100 females; mean age, 23.2 +/- 6.7 years; age range 11-43 years), regularly transfused and desferioxamine chelated, were randomly selected from a pool of approximately 800 patients with beta-thalassemia followed in our department...
February 2002: Thyroid: Official Journal of the American Thyroid Association