Article
Diagnosis of hemochromatosis.
Annals of internal medicine - 1 Dec 1998
Powell L W, George D K, McDonnell S M, Kowdley K V
Abstract excerpt
If untreated, hemochromatosis can cause serious illness and early death, but the disease is still substantially under-diagnosed. The cornerstone of screening and case detection is the measurement of serum transferrin saturation and the serum ferritin level. Once the diagnosis is suspected, physic...
Topics
- Biopsy
- Disease Progression
- Ferritins
- Hemochromatosis
- Heterozygote
- Histocompatibility Testing
- Humans
- Iron
- Liver
- Phenotype
- Phlebotomy
- Point Mutation
- Transferrin