PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - A. Politi
AU  - M. Sticca
AU  - M. Galli
TI  - Reversal of haemochromatotic cardiomyopathy in beta thalassaemia by chelation therapy.
AID  - 10.1136/hrt.73.5.486
DP  - 1995 May 01
TA  - British Heart Journal
PG  - 486--487
VI  - 73
IP  - 5
4099  - http://heart.bmj.com/content/73/5/486.short
4100  - http://heart.bmj.com/content/73/5/486.full
SO  - Heart1995 May 01; 73
AB  - Haemochromatotic cardiomyopathy is the main cause of morbidity and mortality in patients with beta thalassaemia major. Once congestive heart failure develops most patients die in a few months. Congestive heart failure was reversed and echocardiographic findings were restored to normal in a 24 year old woman with beta thalassaemia who resumed treatment with chelation therapy (desferrioxamine).