Long-term safety and efficacy of deferasirox (Exjade) for up to 5 years in transfusional iron-overloaded patients with sickle cell disease.

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Published in Br J Haematol on May 19, 2011

Authors

Elliott Vichinsky1, Françoise Bernaudin, Gian Luca Forni, Renee Gardner, Kathryn Hassell, Matthew M Heeney, Baba Inusa, Abdullah Kutlar, Peter Lane, Liesl Mathias, John Porter, Cameron Tebbi, Felicia Wilson, Louis Griffel, Wei Deng, Vanessa Giannone, Thomas Coates

Author Affiliations

1: Children's Hospital and Research Center at Oakland, Oakland, CA 94609, USA. evichinsky@mail.cho.org

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