[Iron overload disease: recent findings].

Abstract excerpt

Iron overload diseases are due to a progressive increase in total body iron stores that leads to deposition of iron in parenchymal organs and to subsequent damage to these organs. The commonest inherited form of iron overload is hereditary hemochromatosis (HH), an autosomal recessive disorder affecting the white population. Although in the western world and in northern Europe the majority of cases of HH are...

Topics

• Algorithms
• Hemochromatosis
• Hemochromatosis Protein
• Histocompatibility Antigens Class I
• Humans
• Iron Overload
• Membrane Proteins
• Mutation