TY - JOUR AU - Riaz, Haris AU - Riaz, Talha AU - Khan, Muhammad Ubaid AU - Aziz, Sina AU - Ullah, Faizan AU - Rehman, Anis AU - Zafar, Qandeel AU - Kazi, Abdul Nafey PY - 2011 DA - 2011/08/11 TI - Serum ferritin levels, socio-demographic factors and desferrioxamine therapy in multi-transfused thalassemia major patients at a government tertiary care hospital of Karachi, Pakistan JO - BMC Research Notes SP - 287 VL - 4 IS - 1 AB - Beta thalassemia is the most frequent genetic disorder of haemoglobin synthesis in Pakistan. Recurrent transfusions lead to iron-overload manifested by increased serum Ferritin levels, for which chelation therapy is required. SN - 1756-0500 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1756-0500-4-287 DO - 10.1186/1756-0500-4-287 ID - Riaz2011 ER -