Survival and causes of death in 2,033 patients with non-transfusion-dependent β-thalassemia

Affiliations

• ¹ Thalassemia Center, Burjeel Medical City, Abu Dhabi, UAE
• ² Campus of Haematology Franco and Piera Cutino, AOOR Villa Sofia-V. Cervello, Palermo.
• ³ MRI Unit, Fondazione G. Monasterio CNR-Regione Toscana, Pisa.
• ⁴ D.A.S.O.E, Regione Siciliana, Palermo.
• ⁵ Haematology Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz.
• ⁶ Department of Pediatric Haematology, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo.
• ⁷ Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition Research Center, Research Institute for Children's Health, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran.
• ⁸ Department of Promozione della Salute, Materno Infantile, Medicina Interna e Specialistica di Eccellenza (PROMISE), University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy
• ⁹ Department of Pediatric Haematology and Molecular Medicine, National Institute of Blood Diseases and Bone Marrow Transplantation, Karachi.
• ¹⁰ Rare Blood Cell Disease Unit, "Cardarelli" Hospital, Naples.
• ¹¹ Fondazione per la Ricerca Farmacologica Gianni Benzi Onlus, Valenzano (BA).
• ¹² Department of Haematology, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Sultan Qaboos University, Sultanate of Oman; Wallenberg Research Centre, Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch.
• ¹³ Thalassaemia Unit, Ippokratio University Hospital, Thessaloniki.
• ¹⁴ Division of Hematology-Oncology, Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Francisco, UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland, Oakland, CA.
• ¹⁵ Dammam Maternity and Child Hospital, Dammam.
• ¹⁶ Division of Hematology/Oncology, Boston Children's Hospital and Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA; Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Cambridge, MA.
• ¹⁷ Department of Internal Medicine, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut.