Abstract #4490

Reference Ranges for Biventricular Volumes and Ejection Fraction and for Left Ventricular Mass in Adult Thalassemia Intermedia Patients Without Myocardial Iron Overload

Antonella Meloni¹, Vincenzo Positano¹, Daniele De Marchi¹, Cristina Salvatori², Gaetano Giuffrida³, Angelo Peluso⁴, Gianluca Valeri⁵, Gennaro Restaino⁶, Letizia Gulino¹, Massimo Lombardi¹, Alessia Pepe¹

¹CMR Unit, Fondazione G. Monasterio CNR-Regione Toscana and Institute of Clinical Physiology, Pisa, Italy; ²Fondazione G. Monasterio CNR-Regione Toscana, Pisa, Italy; ³Ospedale "Ferrarotto", Divis. Clinicizzata di Ematologia, Catania, Italy; ⁴Microcitemia - Azienda Unit Sanitaria Locale TA/1, Presidio Ospedaliero Centrale, Taranto, Italy; ⁵Dipartimento di Radiologia, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Ospedali Riuniti "Umberto I-Lancisi-Salesi", Ancona, Italy; ⁶Department of Radiology, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Campobasso, Italy

Reference ranges for biventricular volumes and ejection fraction and for LV mass specific to adult thalassemia intermedia (TI) patients were defined. These new reference ranges are important for avoiding a misdiagnosis of cardiomyopathy in TI patients.