Abstract #0143

Significant improvement of survival by T2* MRI in thalassemia major

Antonella Meloni¹, Caterina Borgna-Pignatti², Giovanni Carlo Del Vecchio³, Maria Antonietta Romeo⁴, Maria Rita Gamberini⁵, Federico Bonetti⁶, Maria Giovanna Neri¹, Elisabetta Chiodi⁷, Vincenzo Positano¹, and Alessia Pepe¹

¹Fondazione G. Monasterio CNR-Regione Toscana, Pisa, Italy, ²Università di Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy, ³Uiversity of Bari, Bari, Italy, ⁴University of Catania, Catania, Italy, ⁵Arcispedale "S.Anna", Ferrara, Italy, ⁶Policlinic Foundation San Matteo IRCCS, Pavia, Italy, ⁷Arcispedale “S. Anna”, Ferrara, Italy

The introduction of T2* CMR for the reproducible and non-invasive assessment of myocardial iron overload reduced the likelihood of developing decompensated cardiac failure, allowing the reduction of cardiac mortality in chronically transfused TM patients

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