MEDITERRANEAN JOURNAL OF HEMATOLOGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES, cilt.8, 2016 (SCI-Expanded)
Background: In March 2015, the International Network of Clinicians for Endocrinopathies in Thalassemia and Adolescent Medicine (ICET-A) implemented a two-step survey on central adrenal insufficiency (CAI) assessment in TM patients and after analysis of the collected data, recommendations for the assessment of hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis in clinical practice were defined.