Effect of Pamidronate on Osteoporosis in Patients with β-Thalassemia Major

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Zakeri, Zahra ID 1
Tabibian, Shadi ID 2
Bamedi, Taregh ID 3
Naderi, Majid ID 4
Dorgalaleh, Akbar ID 5
Alizadeh, Shaban ID 6

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چکیده

Background: β-thalassemia major is a hereditary life threatening anemia which requires regular blood transfusion. Clinical symptoms of the disease are growth retardation, pallor, jaundice and skeletal alternations. The variety of bone disease in thalassemia major is manifested by diffuse bone pain or deformity, spontaneous and pathologic fractures and osteopenia or osteoporosis. ...

کلیدواژه‌ها
Osteoporosis, BMD (Bone Mineral Density), β-thalassemia major, Pamidronate