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Hepatic iron loading in patients with compound heterozygous HFE mutations.
Liver international : official journal of the International Association for the Study of the Liver - 1 Dec 2004
Lim Ee Mun, Rossi Enrico, De Boer W Bastiaan, Reed William D, Jeffrey Gary P
Abstract excerpt
AIM: To assess the severity of hepatic iron loading in patients with a compound heterozygous C282Y/H63D HFE genotype. METHODS: A total of 246 patients were referred to the Hepatology Clinic at a tertiary hospital for HFE genotyping and further assessment of elevated serum transferrin saturation and/or ferritin results, either with or without abnormal liver function tests. Subjects of the study were 19 patients...
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