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

• Khaled M. Musallam,
• Angela Vitrano,
• Antonella Meloni,
• Sebastiano Addario Pollina,
• Mehran Karimi,
• Amal El-Beshlawy,
• Mahmoud Hajipour,
• Vito Di Marco,
• Saqib Hussain Ansari,
• Aldo Filosa,
• Paolo Ricchi,
• Adriana Ceci,
• Shahina Daar,
• Efthymia Vlachaki,
• Sylvia Titi Singer,
• Zaki A. Naserullah,
• Alessia Pepe,
• Salvatore Scondotto,
• Gabriella Dardanoni,
• Fedele Bonifazi,
• Vijay G. Sankaran,
• Elliott Vichinsky,
• Ali T. Taher,
• Aurelio Maggio

Affiliations

Khaled M. Musallam

Thalassemia Center, Burjeel Medical City, Abu Dhabi, UAE

Angela Vitrano

Campus of Haematology Franco and Piera Cutino, AOOR Villa Sofia-V. Cervello, Palermo

Antonella Meloni

MRI Unit, Fondazione G. Monasterio CNR-Regione Toscana, Pisa

Sebastiano Addario Pollina

D.A.S.O.E, Regione Siciliana, Palermo

Mehran Karimi

Haematology Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz

Amal El-Beshlawy

Department of Pediatric Haematology, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo

Mahmoud Hajipour

Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition Research Center, Research Institute for Children’s Health, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran

Vito Di Marco

Sezione di Gastroenterologia e Epatologia, Dipartimento Biomedico di Medicina Interna e Specialistica, University of Palermo, Palermo

Saqib Hussain Ansari

Department of Pediatric Haematology and Molecular Medicine, National Institute of Blood Diseases and Bone Marrow Transplantation, Karachi

Aldo Filosa

Rare Blood Cell Disease Unit, "Cardarelli" Hospital, Naples

Paolo Ricchi

Rare Blood Cell Disease Unit, "Cardarelli" Hospital, Naples

Adriana Ceci

Fondazione per la Ricerca Farmacologica Gianni Benzi Onlus, Valenzano (BA)

Shahina Daar

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

Efthymia Vlachaki

Thalassaemia Unit, Ippokratio University Hospital, Thessaloniki

Sylvia Titi Singer

Division of Hematology-Oncology, Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Francisco, UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland, Oakland, CA

Zaki A. Naserullah

Dammam Maternity and Child Hospital, Dammam

Alessia Pepe

MRI Unit, Fondazione G. Monasterio CNR-Regione Toscana, Pisa

Salvatore Scondotto

D.A.S.O.E, Regione Siciliana, Palermo

Gabriella Dardanoni

D.A.S.O.E, Regione Siciliana, Palermo

Fedele Bonifazi

Fondazione per la Ricerca Farmacologica Gianni Benzi Onlus, Valenzano (BA)

Vijay G. Sankaran

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

Elliott Vichinsky

Division of Hematology-Oncology, Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Francisco, UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland, Oakland, CA

Ali T. Taher

Department of Internal Medicine, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut

Aurelio Maggio

Campus of Haematology Franco and Piera Cutino, AOOR Villa Sofia-V. Cervello, Palermo