Correlation of Cardiac and Liver Iron Level with T2*MRI and Vitamin D3 Serum Level in Patients with Thalassemia Major

摘要

Thalassemia is a hypochromic microcytic anemia, which is characterized by congenital disorders. In thalassemia patients, bone diseases are one of the causes of mortality. Our goal was to investigate the association between vitamin D deficiency and increased iron uptake by cardiac myocytes and hepatocytes.