| Literature DB >> 17045671 |
Savvas Nikolidakis, Constantina Flessa, Nikolaos Nikolaou, Efstathios D Gotsis, Michael Koutouzis, Eleni Polyhronaki, Eleni Vrettou, Zenon S Kyriakides.
Abstract
Cardiomyopathy due to iron overload represents a frequent life-limiting complication in patients with beta-thalassemia major. We have conducted a study which proved that brain natriuretic peptide plasma levels have high sensitivity and negative predictive value in detecting cardiac hemosiderosis.Entities:
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Year: 2006 PMID： 17045671 DOI： 10.1016/j.ijcard.2006.07.052
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Int J Cardiol ISSN： 0167-5273 Impact factor: 4.164