Ciprofloxacin: a novel therapeutic agent for iron overload?

Objective: Major thalassemia is one of the hematological diseases requiring multiple blood transfusions, which results in iron overload in the liver, heart and other organs. Current iron chelation therapy consists of intravenous (IV) deferoxamine and oral deferasirox and deferiprone. Although these...

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Main Authors: Mitra Elmi, Parvaneh Rahimi-Moghaddam, Khosrou Abdi, Mehdi Shafiee-Ardestani, Massoud Mahmoudian
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Galenos Publishing House 2009-09-01
Series:Turkish Journal of Hematology
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Online Access:http://www.journalagent.com/z4/download_fulltext.asp?pdir=tjh&plng=eng&un=TJH-04796