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Egyptian Journal of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine
Fig. 6 | Egyptian Journal of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine

Fig. 6

From: MRI evaluation of hepatic and cardiac iron burden in pediatric thalassemia major patients: spectrum of findings by T2*

Fig. 6

Coronal images of the liver and heart at 8 different TE (1.6-18.7ms) reveal a significant decay in both hepatic and myocardial signal that increases on longer TE imaging sequences. The measured cardiac values were (T2*: value of 11.8 ms, MIC: 2.21mg/g) and hepatic values were (T2*: 1.3 ms, LIC: 25.33 mg/g). The measured serum ferritin was 3000 ng/ml. These findings are consistent with severe hepatic and moderate cardiac iron deposition. (Note: the moderate cardiac iron overload inspite of the lower level of serum ferritin and liver iron burden in this case compared to the previous case (Fig. 5) reflecting the incompetence among serum ferritin, liver iron burden and cardiac iron load

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