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ECG Predicts Cardiac Iron in Thalassemia by Fian Aldy is a document available to read on EtoBox.

This document discusses a study that evaluated the ability of 12-lead electrocardiography to predict cardiac iron loading in patients with thalassemia major. The study found that bradycardia and repolarization abnormalities on electrocardiograms were the most specific markers for detecting cardiac iron in these patients. Recursive partitioning of electrocardiography data produced algorithms that predicted cardiac iron status with 88.3% accuracy for females and 87.1% accuracy for males. However, larger and m

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Fian Aldy

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EN