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Corrigendum to "Beta-Thalassemia Intermedia: A Single Thalassemia Center Experience from Northeastern Iraq".

Shaema Salih Amin1, Sana Dlawar Jalal2, Kosar Muhammed Ali3, Ali Ibrahim Mohammed2, Luqman Khalid Rasool4, Tara Jamel Osman4.   

Abstract

[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1155/2020/2807120.].
Copyright © 2020 Shaema Salih Amin et al.

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Year:  2020        PMID: 32685453      PMCID: PMC7346104          DOI: 10.1155/2020/2453270

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Biomed Res Int            Impact factor:   3.411


In the article titled “Beta-Thalassemia Intermedia: A Single Thalassemia Center Experience from Northeastern Iraq” [1], there was an error in Table 1. The corrected table is shown below and is listed as Table 1.
Table 1

Patient and disease characteristics of the current study.

ParameterFrequencyNumber of evaluated patientsPercent
Demographic data
Age (years)
 <189015956.6
 18-355515934.6
 >35141598.8
Gender
 Male9015956.6
 Female6915943.4
 Splenectomized5215932.75
Serum ferritin (μg/L)
 <100012215976.7
 >10003715923.3
Treatment
 None transfused3315920.7
 Occasional transfusion7515947.2
 Regular transfusion5115932.1
 Iron chelation6315939.6
 Hydroxyurea7515947.2
Complications
 Facial deformity9915962.3
Osteoporosis176028.3
∗∗Growth retardation259027.8
∗∗∗Subclinical hypothyroidism2213116.8
∗∗∗∗Cholelithiasis1913713.8
 Pulmonary hypertension1815911.3
 Abnormal liver function121597.5
 Thrombosis21591.3
 EMH11590.6
 Leg ulcer11590.6

∗Osteoporosis and ∗∗∗subclinical hypothyroidism were evaluated in patients ≥ 10 years old and/or symptomatic, ∗∗growth retardation (height > 2SD below 3rd percentile for the mean age and gender) in patients ≤ 18 years, and ∗∗∗∗cholelithiasis estimated in 137 patient excluding the 22 patients that underwent cholecystectomy.

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1.  Beta-Thalassemia Intermedia: A Single Thalassemia Center Experience from Northeastern Iraq.

Authors:  Shaema Salih Amin; Sana Dlawar Jalal; Kosar Muhammed Ali; Ali Ibrahim Mohammed; Luqman Khalid Rasool; Tara Jamel Osman
Journal:  Biomed Res Int       Date:  2020-02-28       Impact factor: 3.411

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