Risk of mortality from anemia and iron overload in nontransfusion-dependent β-thalassemia

Affiliations

• ¹ Thalassemia Center, Burjeel Medical City, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
• ² Campus of Haematology Franco and Piera Cutino, AOOR Villa Sofia-V, Cervello, Palermo, Italy.
• ³ MRI Unit, Fondazione G. Monasterio CNR-Regione Toscana, Pisa, Italy.
• ⁴ D.A.S.O.E., Regione Siciliana, Palermo, Italy.
• ⁵ Haematology Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.
• ⁶ Department of Pediatric Haematology, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt.
• ⁷ Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition Research Center, Research Institute for Children's Health, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
• ⁸ Sezione di Gastroenterologia e Epatologia, Dipartimento Biomedico di Medicina Interna e Specialistica, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy.
• ⁹ Children's Hospital Karachi (CHK), Karachi, Pakistan.
• ¹⁰ Rare Blood Cell Disease Unit, "Cardarelli" Hospital, Naples, Italy.
• ¹¹ Fondazione per la Ricerca Farmacologica Gianni Benzi Onlus, Valenzano (BA), Italy.
• ¹² Department of Haematology, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Sultan Qaboos University, Sultanate of Oman; Wallenberg Research Centre, Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
• ¹³ Thalassaemia Unit, Ippokratio University Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece.
• ¹⁴ Division of Hematology-Oncology, Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Francisco, UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland, Oakland, California, USA.
• ¹⁵ Dammam Maternity and Child Hospital, Dammam, Saudi Arabia.
• ¹⁶ Division of Hematology/Oncology, Boston Children's Hospital and Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
• ¹⁷ Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
• ¹⁸ Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
• ¹⁹ Department of Internal Medicine, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon.