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Indeed, to our knowledge, only one randomized controlled trial comparing desferrioxamine and deferiprone has been conducted and results for that study are incomplete as the trial was terminated prematurely and has not been reported in full [ 9 10 11 ] .
The National Library of Medicine's computerized bibliographic database (Medline 1966 to December 1999) was searched using a combination of the following keywords: thalassemia, serum ferritin, urinary iron excretion, hepatic iron, liver, chelation therapy, iron chelation, iron chelating agents, desferal, desferrioxamine, deferoxamine, L1 oral chelate, deferiprone and 1,2-dimethyl-3-hydroxypyrid-4-one.
3 mg/g) deferiprone (overall p < 0.0001; p = 0.06 and p = 0.0002 for pairwise comparisons of desferrioxamine vs optimal and low dose deferiprone, respectively).
7 mg/g) in deferiprone low dose (overall p < 0.01; findings confirmed in pairwise comparisons).
It has been said that a meta-analysis is only useful until the next good trial comes along [ 29 ] . In the case of iron chelation therapy for patients with thalassemia major, the addition of any good prospective randomized control trial documenting the impact of treatment on body iron (hepatic and/or myocardial) would contribute measurably to the evaluation of the long-term implications of treatment with deferiprone, compared to desferrioxamine.