Open Access<p>Correlation of Cardiac and Liver Iron Level with T2*MRI and Vitamin D3 Serum Level in Patients with Thalassemia Major</p>
Author(s) -
Roya Shaykhbaygloo,
Alireza Moradabadi,
Hassan Taherahmadi,
Mohammad Rafiei,
Fariborz Lotfi,
Aziz Eghbali
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of blood medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.676
H-Index - 18
ISSN - 1179-2736
DOI - 10.2147/jbm.s227012
Subject(s) - medicine , thalassemia , gastroenterology , vitamin d and neurology , ferritin , serum ferritin , beta thalassemia , vitamin , endocrinology
Thalassemia is a hypochromic microcytic anemia, which is characterized by congenital disorders. In thalassemia patients, bone diseases are one of the causes of mortality. Our goal was to investigate the association between vitamin D deficiency and increased iron uptake by cardiac myocytes and hepatocytes.