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Causes of iron overload in blood donors - a clinical study.
Vox sanguinis - 1 Feb 2018
Laursen A H, Bjerrum O W, Friis-Hansen L, Hansen T O, Marott J L, Magnussen K
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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Despite the obligate iron loss from blood donation, some donors present with hyperferritinaemia that can result from a wide range of acute and chronic conditions including hereditary haemochromatosis (HH). The objective of our study was to investigate the causes of hyperferritinaemia in the blood donor population and explore the value of extensive HH mutational analyses. MATERIALS AND...
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