Post-mortem study of the association between cardiac iron and fibrosis in transfusion dependent anaemia

Post-mortem study of the association between cardiac iron and fibrosis in transfusion dependent anaemia

Abstract Background Heart failure related to cardiac siderosis remains a major cause of death in transfusion dependent anaemias. Replacement fibrosis has been reported as causative of heart failure in siderotic cardiomyopathy in historical reports, but these findings do not accord with the reversibl...

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Main Authors: Paul Kirk, Mary Sheppard, John-Paul Carpenter, Lisa Anderson, Taigang He, Tim St Pierre, Renzo Galanello, Gualtiero Catani, John Wood, Suthat Fucharoen, John B Porter, J Malcolm Walker, Gian Luca Forni, Dudley J Pennell
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-03-01
Series:Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance
Subjects:
Thalassaemia
Cardiac siderosis
Cardiac MR
Iron
Heart
Fibrosis
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12968-017-0349-3

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