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Behjat Al-Sadat Moayedi Esfahania, Nahid Reisib* however, DFX is very expensive and the cost is a significant new burden for patients. Recently, researchers have proposed an iron chelating effect for silymarin that is a flavonoid extract from the milk thistle plant. This extract has different properties and has long been used for its antioxidant and hepatoprotective effects. In this review we assess different aspects of silymarin’s potential effects and compare them to the profile of thalassemic patients.
Esfahani et al. (2015) studied this question.