Assessment of Visual Problems on Patients with Thalassemia (Major) and it impact on their Quality of Life: Case control study
Background: Major thalassemia is the most inherited hemoglobinopathy that caused severe and progressive anemia.Iron overload due to repeated blood transfusion cause organ damage such as heart, liver, endocrine gland and skeletal system.Desferal, as an iron chelator is used to eliminate iron in the blood that despite its side effects is few, visual