May Mohamed Abdelhamid Abdelwahab <br/><br/>
Liver enzymes in children with Ý - thalassemia major :   Correlation with iron overload and viral hepatitis /  
 إنزيمات الكبد فى الأطفال المصابين ببيتا ثلاسيميا الكبرى :   العلاقة بين زيادة الحديد والالتهاب الكبدى الفيروسى 
May Mohamed Abdelhamid Abdelwahab ; Supervised Khaled Mohamed Salama , Ola Mostafa Ibrahim , Ahmed Maher Kaddah 
 - Cairo :   May Mohamed Abdelhamid Abdelwahab ,   2012 
 - 136P. :   charts , facsimiles , maps ;   25cm 
<br/><br/>Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Pediatrics 
<br/><br/> The main causes of liver injury in thalassemic patients are hepatic iron overload and viral hepatitis infection both secondary to the regular transfusion regimen which is the main way of treatment . 80 thalassemia major patients recruited from the Pediatric Hematology Clinic in New Children Hospital were studies with respect to age number of blood transfusion per year liver enzymes ferritin transferrin saturation HBsAg anti - HCV antibody and HCV-PCR for anti - HCV positive patients 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Iron overload Thalassemia  Viral hepatitis