Affiliation: | 1. Department of Haematology, University College London, London, UK;2. Thalassemia Center, Children's Hospital, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt;3. Department of Internal Medicine, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon;4. Department of Pediatric Hematology, Ege University Hospital, Izmir, Turkey;5. Department of Haematology, St George Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia;6. Division of Haematology, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University and King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital, Bangkok, Thailand;7. Novartis Pharma AG, Basel, Switzerland;8. Novartis Pharmaceuticals, East Hanover, NJ, USA;9. Hematology Department, Pediatric Hospital, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt |