Ciprofloxacin: a novel therapeutic agent for iron overload?

Objective: Major thalassemia is one of the hematological diseases requiring multiple blood transfusions, which results in iron overload in the liver, heart and other organs. Current iron chelation therapy consists of intravenous (IV) deferoxamine and oral deferasirox and deferiprone. Although these...

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Published in:	Turkish Journal of Hematology
Main Authors:	Mitra Elmi, Parvaneh Rahimi-Moghaddam, Khosrou Abdi, Mehdi Shafiee-Ardestani, Massoud Mahmoudian
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Turkish Society of Hematology 2009-09-01
Subjects:	Thalassemia iron overload ciprofloxacin atomic absorption chelator
Online Access:	http://www.journalagent.com/z4/download_fulltext.asp?pdir=tjh&plng=eng&un=TJH-04796