Thalassemia: a dreadful disease turned to a chronic condition

Abstract

Thalassemia is a disease with many challenging aspects. It is caused by a variety of interesting molecular mechanisms, has a complicated pathophysiology, constitutes a multifaceted medical problem with pain and misery for the patients and unhappiness for their families, creates several diagnostic and therapeutic questions for their physicians, and has a huge social and economic impact across the countries where it occurs in high frequencies...