DEFERIPRONE

Clinical Indication

Treatment of iron overload for transfused and non-transfused patients with chronic inherited anaemias (all ages)

Comments

See formulary

Date of classification

December 2022

Red

Medicines which should be prescribed only in a specialist setting usually within a secondary or tertiary care service. NB: Some highly specialised RED medicines e.g. injectable treatments for cancer are not included on the LLR APC website list.