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Renzo Galanello

Renzo Galanello

Overview

Renzo Galanello was affiliated with the University of Cagliari in Italy. Their research primarily focused on areas within medicine and nursing, with significant contributions to hematology, nutrition and dietetics, genetics, public health, environmental and occupational health, and parasitology.

The scientist frequently studied topics related to iron metabolism and disorders, child nutrition and water access, hemoglobinopathies and related disorders, malaria research and control, nanoparticles and their synthesis and applications, prenatal screening and diagnostics, and trace elements in health.

Renzo Galanello published articles in several scientific journals, including BMC Pediatrics, Scientific Reports, Blood Cells Molecules and Diseases, Nutrients, and Porto Biomedical Journal. Notable recent papers include:

  • Iron deficiency anaemia among 6-to-36-month children from northern Angola (2020), published in BMC Pediatrics
  • Effectiveness of Nutrition and WASH/malaria educational community-based interventions in reducing anemia in children from Angola (2021), published in Scientific Reports
  • Biomarkers and genetic modulators of cerebral vasculopathy in sub-Saharan ancestry children with sickle cell anemia (2020), published in Blood Cells Molecules and Diseases
  • Zinc Deficiency Interacts with Intestinal/Urogenital Parasites in the Pathway to Anemia in Preschool Children, Bengo-Angola (2022), published in Nutrients
  • Anemia in preschool children from Angola: a review of the evidence (2020), published in Porto Biomedical Journal

Renzo Galanello also contributed to book publications, including a chapter in Nanotoxicology in Safety Assessment of Nanomaterials (2022) published by Springer Nature.

Throughout their career, Renzo Galanello collaborated with several frequent co-authors, including Cláudia Fançony, Miguel Brito, Ânia Soares, Henrique Barros, and Luı́s Vieira.

Best Publications

  • Beta-thalassemia

    Renzo Galanello;Raffaella Origa

  • A phase 3 study of deferasirox (ICL670), a once-daily oral iron chelator, in patients with beta-thalassemia.

    Maria Domenica Cappellini;Alan Cohen;Antonio Piga;Mohamed Bejaoui

  • Genome-wide association study shows BCL11A associated with persistent fetal hemoglobin and amelioration of the phenotype of β-thalassemia

    Manuela Uda;Renzo Galanello;Serena Sanna;Guillaume Lettre;Guillaume Lettre

  • A Randomized, Placebo-Controlled, Double-Blind Trial of the Effect of Combined Therapy With Deferoxamine and Deferiprone on Myocardial Iron in Thalassemia Major Using Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance

    M.A. Tanner;R. Galanello;C. Dessi;G.C. Smith

  • Randomized controlled trial of deferiprone or deferoxamine in beta-thalassemia major patients with asymptomatic myocardial siderosis

    Dudley J Pennell;Vasili Berdoukas;Markissia Karagiorga;Vasili Ladis

  • On T2* Magnetic Resonance and Cardiac Iron

    John-Paul Carpenter;Taigang He;Paul Kirk;Michael Roughton

  • Liver iron concentrations and urinary hepcidin in beta-thalassemia.

    Raffaella Origa;Renzo Galanello;Tomas Ganz;Nicolina Giagu

  • Cardiovascular Function and Treatment in β-Thalassemia Major: A Consensus Statement From the American Heart Association

    Dudley J. Pennell;James E. Udelson;Andrew E. Arai;Biykem Bozkurt

  • Seventy-five genetic loci influencing the human red blood cell

    Pim Van Der Harst;Weihua Zhang;Irene Mateo Leach;Augusto Rendon

  • Randomized phase II trial of deferasirox (Exjade, ICL670), a once-daily, orally-administered iron chelator, in comparison to deferoxamine in thalassemia patients with transfusional iron overload.

    Antonio Piga;Renzo Galanello;Gian Luca Forni;Maria Domenica Cappellini

  • Safety and effectiveness of long-term therapy with the oral iron chelator deferiprone.

    Alan R. Cohen;Renzo Galanello;Antonio Piga;Vincenzo De Sanctis

  • Relative response of patients with myelodysplastic syndromes and other transfusion-dependent anaemias to deferasirox (ICL670): a 1-yr prospective study

    John Porter;Renzo Galanello;Giuseppe Saglio;Ellis E.J. Neufeld

  • The safety and effectiveness of deferiprone in a large-scale, 3-year study in Italian patients

    Adriana Ceci;Paola Baiardi;Mariagrazia Felisi;Maria Domenica Cappellini

  • Safety profile of the oral iron chelator deferiprone: a multicentre study

    Cohen Ar;Galanello R;Piga A;Dipalma A

  • Healing of broken human chromosomes by the addition of telomeric repeats.

    J Flint;C F Craddock;A Villegas;D P Bentley

  • Combined chelation therapy in thalassemia major for the treatment of severe myocardial siderosis with left ventricular dysfunction.

    Mark A Tanner;Renzo Galanello;Carlo Dessi;Gillian C Smith

  • Italian Society of Hematology practice guidelines for the management of iron overload in thalassemia major and related disorders

    Emanuele Angelucci;Giovanni Barosi;Clara Camaschella;Maria Domenica Cappellini

  • Safety, Tolerability, and Pharmacokinetics of ICL670, a New Orally Active Iron-Chelating Agent in Patients with Transfusion-Dependent Iron Overload Due to β-Thalassemia

    Renzo Galanello;Antonio Piga;Daniele Maria Alberti;Marie-Claude Rouan

  • A mutation in the TMPRSS6 gene, encoding a transmembrane serine protease that suppresses hepcidin production, in familial iron deficiency anemia refractory to oral iron.

    Maria Antonietta Melis;Milena Cau;Rita Congiu;Gabriella Sole

  • Seventy-five genetic loci influencing the human red blood cell

    Pim van der Harst;Weihua Zhang;Irene Mateo Leach;Augusto Rendon

Frequent Co-Authors

Antonio Cao
Antonio Cao University of Cagliari
John B. Porter
John B. Porter University College London
Maria Domenica Cappellini
Maria Domenica Cappellini University of Milan
Dudley J. Pennell
Dudley J. Pennell National Institutes of Health
Mario Pirastu
Mario Pirastu National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Eric Jauniaux
Eric Jauniaux University College London
Mario Cazzola
Mario Cazzola University of Pavia
Serena Sanna
Serena Sanna National Research Council (CNR)
Manuela Uda
Manuela Uda National Research Council (CNR)
Emmanuel Kanavakis
Emmanuel Kanavakis National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

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