"Thalassemia" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
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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 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2010 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Thalassemia" by people in Profiles.
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Unrelated Donor Transplantation in Children with Thalassemia using Reduced-Intensity Conditioning: The URTH Trial. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2018 06; 24(6):1216-1222.
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Guidelines for the Standard Monitoring of Patients With Thalassemia: Report of the Thalassemia Longitudinal Cohort. J Pediatr Hematol Oncol. 2015 Apr; 37(3):e162-9.
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Assessment of cardiac iron by MRI susceptometry and R2* in patients with thalassemia. Magn Reson Imaging. 2010 Apr; 28(3):363-71.
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Disparity in the management of iron overload between patients with sickle cell disease and thalassemia who received transfusions. Transfusion. 2008 Sep; 48(9):1971-80.
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Extramedullary hematopoiesis presenting as posterior mediastinal mass: a study of four cases. Mod Pathol. 1995 Apr; 8(3):249-51.
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MRI diagnosis of spinal cord compression in beta-thalassemia. Spine (Phila Pa 1976). 1991 May; 16(5):583-4.
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Magnetic resonance imaging of bone marrow in sickle cell disease: clinical, hematologic, and pathologic correlations. Blood. 1990 Jan 01; 75(1):274-83.
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[Therapeutic advances in bone marrow transplantation]. Clin Ter. 1987 Sep 15; 122(5):321-32.
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A collaborative, double-blind randomized study of cetiedil citrate in sickle cell crisis. Blood. 1986 May; 67(5):1442-7.
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Transfer of a functioning humoral immune system in transplantation of T-lymphocyte-depleted bone marrow. Lancet. 1986 Feb 15; 1(8477):339-43.