Ocular involvement correlated with age in patients affected by major and intermedia beta-thalassemia treated or not with desferrioxamine
Rinaldi, M.; Della Corte, M.; Ruocco, V.; D'Onofrio, C.; Zanotta, G.; Romano, A.
Metabolic Pediatric and Systemic Ophthalmology 16(1-2): 23-25
1993
ISSN/ISBN: 0882-889X PMID: 8259071 Document Number: 7246
We examined 25 patients affected from Cooley's disease and five by beta-thalassemia intermedia. The mean age was 15 +/- 6.3 years. Fifteen patients, (18 years or older) three of them affected by beta-thalassemia intermedia, presented ocular abnormalities. So it was impossible to establish a correlation between laboratory data and ocular damages; their observation, with reference to untreated beta-thalassemia subjects, suggested that ocular abnormalities cannot be only attributed to desferrioxamine treatment.
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