Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Thalassemia manifests clinically as anemia requiring life-long blood transfusions and the chronic iron deposition . Iron overload can lead to decreased functioning of the respective systems. Thalassemia-associated osteoporosis constitutes a majorproblem. Weinvestigated the bone mineral density scores of the thalassemic patients and correlated the scores of themwith some parameters including the transfusion frequency, levels of ferritin and pituitary hormones....