Pulmonary Hypertension in β-Thalassemia
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ATHANASIOS AESSOPOS; DIMITRIOS FARMAKIS
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Article
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2005
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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**Abstract:** Cardiac involvement represents the leading cause of mortality in both forms of β‐thalassemia, namely, thalassemia major (TM) and thalassemia intermedia (TI), and pulmonary hypertension (PHT) is part of the cardiopulmonary complications of the disease. PHT was initially documented in a