TY - BOOK AU - Salwa Hassan Ahmed Ali AU - Alia Abdelaziz Saad , AU - Hala Mahmoud Fahmy , AU - Mohamed Talaat , TI - Role of parathormone and altered calcium homeostasis in bone disease in Egyptian adult patients with thalassemia / PY - 2014/// CY - Cairo : PB - Salwa Hassan Ahmed Ali , KW - Hypoparathyroidim KW - Iron overload KW - Thalassemia N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Internal Medicine; Issued also as CD N2 - Beta Thalassemia is the most common chronic hemolytic anemia in Egypt (85.1%). Iron overload remains the biggest threat to the health of patients with thalassemia. Multi - transfused thalassaemic patients may develop severe endocrine complications due to iron overload. Etiology of bone disease in thalassemic patients is poorly understood. Number of studies has examined the effect of various conditions on the pathogenesis of bone disease including ineffective erythropoiesis, iron overload, vitamin D concentrations, and the influence of endocrinopathies. Hypopara-thyroidism was found in 7.6% of a group of thalassemic patients in Iran but 3.6 {u2013} 7% reported in Italian thalassemic patients UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -