"Thalassemia" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A group of hereditary hemolytic anemias in which there is decreased synthesis of one or more hemoglobin polypeptide chains. There are several genetic types with clinical pictures ranging from barely detectable hematologic abnormality to severe and fatal anemia.
| Descriptor ID |
D013789
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C15.378.071.141.150.875 C15.378.420.826 C16.320.070.875 C16.320.365.826
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| 2008 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2009 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2019 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Thalassemia" by people in Profiles.
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De Pascale MR, Belsito A, Sommese L, Signoriello S, Sorriento A, Vasco M, Schiano C, Fiorito C, Durevole G, Casale M, Perrotta S, Casale F, Alfano R, Benincasa G, Nicoletti GF, Napoli C. Blood transfusions and adverse acute events: a retrospective study from 214 transfusion-dependent pediatric patients comparing transfused blood components by apheresis or by whole blood. Ann Ist Super Sanita. 2019 Oct-Dec; 55(4):351-356.
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Rosenberg A, Selounski V, Wardak H, Han J, Gowhari M, Hassan J, Jain S, Molokie RE, Gordeuk VR, Saraf SL. Utility of the revised cardiac risk index for predicting postsurgical morbidity in Hb SC and Hb S?+-thalassemia sickle cell disease. Am J Hematol. 2016 06; 91(6):E316-7.
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Kato GJ, Taylor JG. Pleiotropic effects of intravascular haemolysis on vascular homeostasis. Br J Haematol. 2010 Mar; 148(5):690-701.
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Taylor JG, Nolan VG, Mendelsohn L, Kato GJ, Gladwin MT, Steinberg MH. Chronic hyper-hemolysis in sickle cell anemia: association of vascular complications and mortality with less frequent vasoocclusive pain. PLoS One. 2008 May 07; 3(5):e2095.
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Greenberg PL, Gordeuk V, Issaragrisil S, Siritanaratkul N, Fucharoen S, Ribeiro RC. Major hematologic diseases in the developing world- new aspects of diagnosis and management of thalassemia, malarial anemia, and acute leukemia. Hematology Am Soc Hematol Educ Program. 2001; 479-98.
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Gordeuk VR. Hereditary and nutritional iron overload. Baillieres Clin Haematol. 1992 Jan; 5(1):169-86.
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Chidoori C, Paul B, Gordeuk VR. Homozygous alpha+ thalassaemia in Zimbabwe: an unrecognized cause of hypochromia and microcytosis. Cent Afr J Med. 1989 Sep; 35(9):472-6.