TY - BOOK AU - Amira Ibrahim Abdelrazik Hassan AU - Amina Abdelsalam Mahmoud , AU - Inas Abdelsattar Saad , AU - Mona Kamal Elghamrawy , TI - Pulmonary hypertension in thalassemia intermedia patients / PY - 2011/// CY - Cairo : PB - Amira Ibrahim Abdelrazik Hassan , KW - Pulmonary hypertension KW - Splenectomy KW - Thalassemia intermedia N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Pediatrics; Issued also as CD N2 - Cardiac complications are relatively common in Ý thalassemia. Pulmonary hypertension (PHT) is a common yet poorly understood complication of Ý thalassemia. The etiology of PHT in thalassemia is multifactorial. We aimed to detect the presence of PHT, to assess cardiac dimensions and functions and to study the relationship between PHT and various clinical and laboratory characteristics among thalassemia intermedia TI patients ER -