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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.
As initial hepatic iron load was greater, on average, in patients receiving desferrioxamine, the comparison of the means needed to take this into account.
In the first study, 144 patients with thalassemia major and relatively low serum ferritin concentrations (1,500 - 3,000 ng/mL) were randomized to either deferiprone (n = 71) or desferrioxamine (n = 73) and followed for one year [ 28 ] . Although, the primary efficacy measure was the reduction of serum ferritin, HIC was assessed in a small subgroup of patients willing to undergo repeat liver biopsy: 21 in the deferiprone and 15 in the desferrioxamine group.
The studies identified were carefully evaluated for eligibility; they were included if they (i) enrolled subjects with thalassemia major - irrespective of age at diagnosis, treatment initiation or study start nor of treatment history in terms of transfusion regimen or iron chelation; (ii) followed patients treated with either desferrioxamine administered subcutaneously or intravenously or oral deferiprone; and (iii) measured hepatic iron concentrations to evaluate treatment efficacy.
The doses of deferiprone - even in the optimal dose group - are relatively low, compared to the desferrioxamine doses, which in most studies are well above the recommended 40 mg/kg/day.
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