Women who require frequent blood transfusions may be on iron chelation agents to reduce subsequent iron overload, such as desferrioxamine mesilate; this is contraindicated in pregnancy (Neville and Panepinto, 2011; Howard and Oteng-Ntim, 2012).
Women who require frequent bloodtransfusions may be on iron chelation agentsto reduce subsequent iron overload, such asdesferrioxamine mesilate; this is contraindicatedin pregnancy (Neville and Panepinto, 2011;Howard and Oteng-Ntim, 2012).