Abstract #3903
Regional Myocardial Contractility In Thalassemia Major By Magnetic Resonance Tagging
Antonella Meloni 1 , Chiara Tudisca 2 , Emanuele Grassedonio 2 , Cristina Paci 3 , Alessandra Quota 4 , Petra Keilberg 1 , Vincenzo Positano 1 , Massimo Midiri 2 , Massimo Lombardi 1 , and Alessia Pepe 1
1
CMR Unit, Fondazione G.Monasterio
CNR-Regione Toscana and Institute of Clinical
Physiology, Pisa, Italy,
2
Policlinico
"Paolo Giaccone", Istituto di Radiologia, Palermo,
Italy,
3
Centro
Trasfusionale, Ospedale S Maria alla Gruccia,
Montevarchi, Italy,
4
Serv.
Talassemia, Osp. "V. Emanuele III", Gela, Italy
Compared to healthy subjects, patients with thalassemia
major (TM) have a significant lower cardiac
contractility, assessed by means of MR tagging
techniques. However in TM the altered contractility is
not related to cardiac iron, volumes and global
function.
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