Effectiveness of red blood cell exchange, partial manual exchange, and simple transfusion concurrently with iron chelation therapy in reducing iron overload in chronically transfused sickle cell anemia patients.

CONCLUSION: We recommend RCE plus chelation as an effective method for reducing iron overload, while maintaining HbS at 30% to 35%. PMID: 26997031 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26997031?dopt=Abstract

Source: Transfusion - March 19, 2016 Category: Hematology Authors: Fasano RM, Leong T, Kaushal M, Sagiv E, Luban NL, Meier ER Tags: Transfusion Source Type: research