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Can you overload on iron via blood transfusions if you have thalassemia?
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Yes: Not only can you develop Ito overload, multiple or chronic transfusion of patients with transfusion -dependent thalassemia is inevitable and requires chelation therapy to remove iron
Answered 1/25/2015
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