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  • Title: Myocardial iron loading by magnetic resonance imaging T2* in good prognostic myelodysplastic syndrome patients on long-term blood transfusions.
    Author: Chacko J, Pennell DJ, Tanner MA, Hamblin TJ, Wonke B, Levy T, Thomas PW, Killick SB.
    Journal: Br J Haematol; 2007 Sep; 138(5):587-93. PubMed ID: 17610536.
    Abstract:
    Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) was used to quantify myocardial iron loading by T2* in 11 transfusion-dependent good prognostic myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) patients. Myocardial T2*, left ventricular function and hepatic T2* were measured simultaneously. Patients had been on transfusion therapy for 13-123 months and had serum ferritin levels of 1109-6148 microg/l at the time of study. Five patients had not commenced iron chelation and had been transfused with a median of 63 red cell units and had a median serum ferritin level of 1490 microg/l. Six patients were on iron chelation and had been transfused with a median of 112 red cell units and had a median serum ferritin level of 4809 mug/l. Hepatic iron overload was mild in two, moderate in seven and severe in two patients. The median liver iron concentration was 5.9 mg/g dry weight in chelated patients and 9.5 mg/g in non-chelated patients (P = 0.17; not significant). Myocardial T2* indicated absent iron loading in 10/11 patients (91%; 95% confidence interval 62-98%) and borderline-normal in one patient. Left ventricular function was normal in all patients. No correlation was observed between increasing serum ferritin levels, hepatic iron overload and myocardial T2*. A long latent period relative to hepatic iron loading appears to predate the development of myocardial iron loading in transfusion-dependent MDS patients.
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