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High nontransferrin bound iron levels and heart disease in thalassemia major

✍ Scribed by Antonio Piga; Filomena Longo; Lorena Duca; Simona Roggero; Tiziana Vinciguerra; Roberto Calabrese; Chaim Hershko; Maria Domenica Cappellini

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 2009
Tongue: English
Weight: 101 KB
Volume: 84
Category: Article
ISSN: 0361-8609
DOI: 10.1002/ajh.21317

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