Pancreatic Iron Loading In Emoglobinopathies

Background.The MIOT (Myocardial Iron Overload in Thalassemia) project is a multicentric study aimed to validate the T2* Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) technique as non invasive approach for the cardiac and hepatic iron overload assessment in patients with hemoglobinopathies and to correlate the T2* values with other clinical-instrumental parameters. More recently, the E-MIOT (Extension-MIOT) project has been approved, with the aim of adding the assessment of the pancreatic iron