Prospective Changes Of Cardiac And Hepatic Iron And Cardiac Function In Low And Intermediate-1 Risk Mds Patients

Background: In patients with myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) no longitudinal studies on myocardial and hepatic iron and on cardiac function and fibrosis are available in literature. So, the aim of our study was to assess the changes in cardiac and hepatic iron overload and the morpho-functional cardiac parameters by Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) in MDS patients enrolled in the MIOMED (Myocardial Iron Overload in MyElodysplastic Diseases) study who performed the follow-up (FU) MRI at 12 months.