To assess cardiac status in a large group of patients with thalassemia major who had been treated in a standard way since their early infancy with intensive transfusions and deferoxamine chelation therapy and who had good compliance with this regimen.
Cardiac Outpatient Clinic for Hemoglobinopathies, First Department of Internal Medicine, University of Athens Medical School, Laiko Hospital, Athens, Greece. dfarm1@panafonet.gr
