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Rapid Iron Loading in Heart and Liver in a Patient with Transfusion Dependent Thalassaemia after Brief Poor Compliance with Iron Chelation Therapy
Iron loading in patients with transfusion dependent thalassaemia is considered to occur primarily in the liver and, once the liver becomes saturated, other organs begin loading. We report here a splenectomised male patient who was treated for hepatitis C virus infection. Prior to starting antiviral therapy, his serum f …