Effects of blood transfusion on exercise capacity in thalassemia major patients.

Effects of blood transfusion on exercise capacity in thalassemia major patients.

Anemia has an important role in exercise performance. However, the direct link between rapid changes of hemoglobin and exercise performance is still unknown.To find out more on this topic, we studied 18 beta-thalassemia major patients free of relevant cardiac dysfunction (age 33.5±7.2 years,males =...

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Main Authors: Daniela Benedetto, Carmelo Massimo Rao, Claudia Cefalù, Demetrio Oreste Aguglia, Gaia Cattadori, Domenico Giuseppe D'Ascola, Frank Antonio Benedetto, Piergiuseppe Agostoni, Susanna Sciomer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4444349?pdf=render

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