Clinical aspects of hemochromatosis.

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The term hemochromatosis is commonly used as synonymous with HFE-associated genetic iron overload but several rarer causes of an identical clinicopathological syndrome have been described in recent years. The most common symptoms are lethargy and arthralgia, and the major complications of end-stage disease are cirrhosis, diabetes, and cardiac and endocrine manifestations. However, with the development of cascade...

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