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Distribution and quantitation of skin iron in primary haemochromatosis: correlation with total body iron stores in patients undergoing phlebotomy.
Acta dermato-venereologica - 1 Jan 2014
Pinheiro Teresa, Silva Raquel, Fleming Rita, Gonçalves Afonso, Barreiros Maria A, Silva João N, Morlière Patrice, Santus René, Filipe Paulo
Abstract excerpt
Measurement of the concentration of iron in the skin, if correlated with total body iron stores, may enable better informed decisions on when to initiate, change or stop therapy in hereditary heamochromatosis. Naïve haemochromatosis patients with iron overload and with C282Y and/or H63D HFE mutations were evaluated at the following time-points: disease diagnosis, end of the therapy programme, and 6 months after...
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