Thalassemia Patients and Friends

Discussion Forums => Living with Thalassemia => Topic started by: baal on March 29, 2012, 10:26:38 PM

Title: please read
Post by: baal on March 29, 2012, 10:26:38 PM

i wished i have seen this before it happend to me.....

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2999281/?tool=pmcentrez

Title: Re: please read
Post by: Andy Battaglia on March 29, 2012, 11:14:15 PM

This is a significant issue for older thals. I hope some progress is made in preventing it. I am fairly certain that this is what Lisa's dad also had.

Panos, are you in any treatment? Is a liver transplant a possibility?

Title: Re: please read
Post by: Poirot on April 03, 2012, 09:51:55 AM

This is something that worries me the most.

Especially, given that HCV treatments are both vile and ineffective in chronic infections.

And, a liver transplant is nearly as complex as a heart one or BMT - the only interesting news on this front has been some recent successes on partial transplants.


Poirot

Title: Re: please read
Post by: Pratik on November 07, 2012, 10:00:53 AM

Hi Andy,

I would like more information on this and whether what caution to have or how to prevent this.

-P.