Deferiprone in iron overload

Jayesh Mehta; Seema Singhal; B. C. Mehta; D. Adhikari; A. V. Hoffbrand; B. Wonke; D. G. Nathan

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Deferiprone in iron overload

Jayesh Mehta^*, Seema Singhal, B. C. Mehta, D. Adhikari, A. V. Hoffbrand, B. Wonke, D. G. Nathan

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Medicine, Hematology Oncology Division

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To the Editor: Olivieri et al. (April 6 issue)¹ are to be congratulated on their work on deferiprone, which, in addition to demonstrating the drug's efficacy in iron chelation, is the only study so far to have addressed some of the controversies surrounding the use of the drug.²–⁵ Our experience with autoimmune phenomena has not been confined to just one case of fatal drug-induced systemic lupus erythematosus.² We have found a significantly higher incidence of antinuclear antibodies in patients with thalassemia treated with deferiprone (7 of 27) than in those not receiving the drug (2 of 63, P<0.01). Antibodies.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	597-599
Number of pages	3
Journal	New England Journal of Medicine
Volume	333
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJM199508313330915
State	Published - Aug 31 1995

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