RESEARCH PAPER
Evaluation of Cardiac Iron Load by Cardiac Magnetic Resonance in Thalassemia RASHID MERCHANT, ADITI JOSHI, JAVED AHMED, *PRADEEP KRISHNAN AND *BHAVIN JANKHARIA From the Department of Pediatrics, Dr Balabhai Nanavati Hospital, Mumbai, India; and *Piramal Diagnostics, Mumbai, India. Correspondence to: Dr Rashid H Merchant, 501, Rangmahal 5th floor, 2 Mount Mary Road, Bandra (West), Mumbai 400 050, India.
[email protected] Received: January 16, 2010; Initial review; March 02, 2010; Accepted: August 23, 2010. Objective: To quantify myocardial iron stores by Cardiac Magnetic Resonance (CMR) .
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