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Transient elevation of serum ferritin in a Sri Lankan with homozygosity for H63D mutation in the HFE gene: a case report.
Journal of medical case reports - 9 Jul 2020
Wickramasinghe Wasanthi, Karunathilaka Chathurika, Jayasinghe Saroj, Gooneratne Lallindra
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INTRODUCTION: Hereditary hemochromatosis is an inherited disorder of iron metabolism, characterized by excessive iron deposition in major organs of the body, leading to multi-organ dysfunction. It is a genetically heterogeneous disease caused by mutations in one or more different genes, the most common being mutations in the HFE gene. HFE hereditary hemochromatosis is mostly found in Europeans and is almost...
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