Introduction and Aim: Diabetic nephropathy is the common cause of final stage kidney disease. Studies on trace elements oxidant-antioxidant status in diabetes mellitus are required for establishing mechanisms involved pathogenesis diabetic complications, also to establish biomarkers addition conventional markers. The present study aimed assess correlate blood levels copper, iron, ceruloplasmin,...

We established a method for fully automated measurement of total iron-binding capacity (TIBC) in serum without separation of the unbound excess iron after saturating serum transferrin. After saturation of serum transferrin with an excess amount of iron (first step), the unbound iron was eliminated by formation of a complex with ferrozine, which was used as a chromogenic reagent (second step). F...

Objective: To examine the factors affecting serum albumin level in uremic patients receiving continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD). Methods: One hundred and twenty-five patients with end-stage renal disease on CAPD in our center were recruited for this cross-sectional study. Patients receiving CAPD for less than 12 months (n = 36) or receiving concurrent intermittent hemodialysis (n ...

in this study the iron status of pregnant women in two different socio-economic groups and also the effect of multigravidity on iron status of the mothers were investigated. blood samples were with drawn from 165 mothers (91 from farah and 74 from missaghieh maternity hospital) immediately after delivery and hemoglobin, hematocrit, serum iron, total iron-binding capacity (tibc) and total protei...

OBJECTIVE To diagnose and differentiate iron deficiency anaemia (IDA) from anaemia of chronic disorders (ACD) using serum concentration of soluble transferrin receptors (sTfR). METHODS One hundred and seventy six adult anaemic patients were diagnosed on bone marrow examination as IDA and ACD in the Department of Haematology, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Rawalpindi from November 2001 t...

Introduction: COVID-19 is a new type of coronavirus that infects humans and causes severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). Isolated in Wuhan City, China, December 2019. Similar to discoveries relating the coronaviruses cause (SARS-CoV) Middle East (MERS-CoV). Levels cytokines (Interleukin-6, Interleukin-1 β ), iron hemoglobin changed during disease. Hepcidin an regulatory protein encoded by H...

Background: Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST) is a potentially life-threatening condition with wide range of clinical presentations, from localized headache (the most common symptom) to mental status disturbances, seizures, and coma. Objectives: The main purpose this study was evaluate serum levels ferritin, iron, total iron binding capacity (TIBC) their possible relationship different pa...

Iron overload is increasingly being connected to insulin resistance in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) patients. Free iron causes the assembly of reactive oxygen species that invariably steer the body's homeostasis towards oxidative stress-mediated diabetic complications. This study aims to assess the serum iron, total iron binding capacity (TIBC), and percentage transferrin saturation (Tsat) o...