Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) frequently complicates hepatic cirrhosis secondary to viral infection or iron overload. Therefore, patients affected by thalassaemia syndromes have a theoretically high risk of developing the tumour. We collected data on patients attending Italian centres for the treatment of thalassaemia. Twenty-two cases of HCC were identified; 15 were male. At diagnosis, the mean age was 45 ± 11 years and the mean serum ferritin was 1764 ± 1448 μg/l. Eighty-six percent had been infected by hepatitis C virus. Nineteen of 22 cases were diagnosed after 1993, suggesting that this problem is becoming more frequent with the aging population of thalassaemia patients.
Hepatocellular carcinoma in the thalassaemia syndromes / C. Borgna-Pignatti, G. Vergine, T. Lombardo, M.D. Cappellini, P. Cianciulli, A. Maggio, D. Renda, M.E. Lai, A. Mandas, G. Forni, A. Piga, M.G. Bisconte. - In: BRITISH JOURNAL OF HAEMATOLOGY. - ISSN 0007-1048. - 124:1(2004 Jan), pp. 114-117.
Hepatocellular carcinoma in the thalassaemia syndromes
M.D. Cappellini;
2004
Abstract
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) frequently complicates hepatic cirrhosis secondary to viral infection or iron overload. Therefore, patients affected by thalassaemia syndromes have a theoretically high risk of developing the tumour. We collected data on patients attending Italian centres for the treatment of thalassaemia. Twenty-two cases of HCC were identified; 15 were male. At diagnosis, the mean age was 45 ± 11 years and the mean serum ferritin was 1764 ± 1448 μg/l. Eighty-six percent had been infected by hepatitis C virus. Nineteen of 22 cases were diagnosed after 1993, suggesting that this problem is becoming more frequent with the aging population of thalassaemia patients.
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