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Query: UMLS:C0039730 (
thalassemia
)
10,305
document(s) hit in 31,850,051 MEDLINE articles (0.00 seconds)
Two thalassemia major patients received regular blood transfusion and desferrioxamine chelation, and 1 patient had a splenectomy at 9 years of age. Both patients developed Klebsiella pneumoniae meningitis at age of 27 and 15 years. They died within a short time despite appropriate antibiotic treatment.
Klebsiella meningitis
may be more common in transfusion-dependent
thalassemia
patients.
...
PMID:Klebsiella pneumoniae meningitis in thalassemia major patients. 1129 93
