Iron overload‐related heart failure in a patient with transfusion‐dependent myelodysplastic syndrome reversed by intensive combined chelation therapy

Abstract

Patients with transfusion‐dependent myelodysplastic syndromes ( MDS ) have an increased risk of cardiac events, due to both chronic anemia and iron overload. Here, we report the recovery of cardiac function after an intensive iron chelation therapy in a MDS patient who had developed heart failure due to iron overload.