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A diagnostic approach to hyperferritinemia with a non-elevated transferrin saturation.
Journal of hepatology - 1 Aug 2011
Adams Paul C, Barton James C
Abstract excerpt
Elevated serum ferritin concentrations are common in clinical practice. In this review, we provide an approach to interpreting the serum ferritin elevation in relationship to other clinical parameters including the patient history, transferrin saturation, serum concentrations of alanine, and aspartate aminotransferases (ALT, AST), testing for HFE mutations, liver imaging, liver biopsy, and liver iron...
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