The Letter to the Editor “Prevalence and mortality trends of hemoglobinopathies in Italy: a nationwide study” by Gianesin et al.1 was published with an incorrect affiliation for the authors G. Graziadei and E. Cassinerio due to a revision error. The correct affiliations for the authors are reported below. We apologize to the authors and readers.
Barbara Gianesin,1 Frédéric B. Piel,2 Khaled M. Musallam,3-5 Susanna Barella,6 Maddalena Casale,7 Elena Cassinerio,8 Rosario Di Maggio,9 Antonia Gigante,1 Maria Rita Gamberini,10 Giovanna Graziadei,8 Roberto Lisi,11 Filomena Longo,10 Aurelio Maggio,9 Raffaella Origa,12 Annamaria Pasanisi,13 Silverio Perrotta,7 Antonio Giulio Piga,14 Valeria Maria Pinto,15 Rosamaria Rosso,16 Giacomo Robello,17 Giovanna Russo,18 Marco Zecca,19 Lucia De Franceschi,20,21 and Gian Luca Forni;1,22 Collaborative Groups: Italian Hemoglobinopathies National Survey Group National Survey Group
1For Anemia Foundation ETS, Genoa, Italy; 2Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK; 3Center for Research on Rare Blood Disorders (CR-RBD), Burjeel Medical City, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates; 4Department of Public Health & Epidemiology, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates; 5Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Pediatrics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA; 6SC Centro delle Microcitemie e Anemie Rare, ASL Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy; 7Department of Women, Child and General and Specialized Surgery, University Luigi Vanvitelli, Naples, Italy; 8SC Medicina ad Indirizzo Metabolico, Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy; 9Campus of Haematology Franco and Piera Cutino, UOC Ematologia per le Malattie Rare Del Sangue e degli Organi Ematopoietici, AOOR Villa Sofia-V. Cervello, Palermo, Italy; 10SSD Day Hospital of Thalassemia and Hemoglobinopathies, Department of Specialized Medicine, Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria S. Anna, Ferrara, Italy; 11Thalassemia Unit, ARNAS Garibaldi, Catania, Italy; 12Università di Cagliari, SC Centro delle Microcitemie e Anemie Rare, ASL Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy; 13Centro della Microcitemia A. Quarta, Hematology Unit, A. Perrino Hospital, Brindisi, Italy; 14Department of Clinical and Biological Sciences, University of Turin, Turin, Italy; 15Hematology and Cellular Therapy, IRCCS Ospedale Policlinico San Martino, Genova, Italy; 16UOSD di Talassemia ed Emoglobinopatie, Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria Policlinico San Marco, Catania, Italy; 17Centro della Microcitemia e Anemie Congenite e del Dismetabolismo del Ferro, Ospedale Galliera, Genoa, Italy; 18Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Unit, Università di Catania, Catania, Italy; 19Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia, Italy; 20Department of Engineering for Innovative Medicine, University of Verona, Verona, Italy; 21Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Integrata, Verona, Italy and 22Hematology Unit, IRCCS Giannina Gaslini, Genoa, Italy
Footnotes
- Received February 12, 2025
- Accepted February 12, 2025
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- Gianesin B, Piel FB, Musallam KM. Prevalence and mortality trends of hemoglobinopathies in Italy: a nationwide study. Haematologica. 2025. https://doi.org/10.3324/haematol.2024.286886PubMedPubMed CentralGoogle Scholar
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