Importance of Iron Chelation Therapy

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 30 Dec 2011 English Publisher:MDPI AGJournal:Thalassemia Reports, volume 1, page e11 (eissn: 2039-4365,

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Authors: A. Varoğlu;

doi: 10.4081/thal.2011.s2.e11

Importance of Iron Chelation Therapy

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Abstract

It is necessary to remember that today patients have different options of chelation treatment, as desferrioxamine, deferiprone and deferasirox are available. However, a patient has to be compliant with treatments. They have always to remember that too much iron causes different complications and could be a barrier for a definitive cure from thalassemia.

Keywords

Diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs, RC633-647.5, iron chelation therapy.

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