DISCUSSION -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Although several studies have indicated that repeated blood donation induces iron depletion and iron deficiency, all blood centers still test only hemoglobin as an indicator for selecting the donors. The present study shows the importance of measuring the iron stores and then proposed a strategy to prev...

OBJECTIVE To quantify myocardial iron stores by Cardiac Magnetic Resonance (CMR). DESIGN Prospective cohort study. SETTING Thalassemia center in a teaching hospital. PARTICIPANTS 60 transfusion dependant thalassemia major patients and 10 controls during 2008-2009. METHODS MRI T2* for cardiac iron load and cardiac functions was performed on a 1.5 Tesla Siemens Sonata machine using the th...

BACKGROUND & AIMS Hepatic iron is increased in dysmetabolic iron overload syndrome (DIOS). Whether this reflects elevated body iron stores is still debated. The study was aimed at assessing body iron stores in DIOS patients by calculating the amount of mobilized iron (AMI). METHODS We conducted a prospective case-control study comparing AMI in 12 DIOS patients and 12 overweight normoferritine...

Hereditary hemochromatosis is inherited in an autosomal recessive manner with partial biochemical expression in heterozygotes. A high percentage of saturation of serum transferrin is the hallmark of the disorder, and serum ferritin concentration gives an approximate estimation of the size of iron stores. Hepatic computed tomography, magnetic susceptometry, and nuclear magnetic resonance provide...

Oral iron supplementation is usually the first choice for the treatment of iron deficiency anemia (IDA) because of its effectiveness and low cost. But unfortunately in many iron deficient conditions, oral iron is a less than the ideal treatment mainly because of adverse events related to the gastrointestinal tract as well as the long course required to treat anemia and replenish body iron store...

We describe a family with autosomal dominant inheritance of increased body iron stores characterized by raised serum ferritin concentration and normal transferrin saturation. Liver biopsy showed iron deposition in Kupffer cells without fibrosis. The clinical features of HFE-related hemochromatosis were absent, as were the Cys282Tyr and His63Asp mutations. Venesection therapy was poorly tolerate...

We describe a family with autosomal dominant inheritance of increased body iron stores characterized by raised serum ferritin concentration and normal transferrin saturation. Liver biopsy showed iron deposition in Kupffer cells without fibrosis. The clinical features of HFE-related hemochromatosis were absent, as were the Cys282Tyr and His63Asp mutations. Venesection therapy was poorly tolerate...

BACKGROUND Recent studies have suggested that, in patients with chronic hepatitis C, elevated iron stores are predictive of a poor response to interferon. AIMS To assess liver iron concentration and distribution before and after interferon treatment in patients with hepatitis C in order to evaluate further the role of iron in the pathogenesis of hepatitis C. PATIENTS Fifty-five patients wit...