- ►annals.org JC Barton, SM McDonnell, PC Adams, P … - Annals of internal …, 1998 - Am Coll Physicians The complications of iron overload in hemochromatosis can be avoided by early diagnosis and
appropriate management.Therapeutic phlebotomy is used to remove excess iron and maintain
low normal body iron stores, and it should be initiated in men with serum ferritin levels of ... Cited by 196 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 7 versions
T Phlebotomy - Annals of Internal Medicine, 1998 - munstermom.tripod.com The complications of iron overload in hemochromatosis can be avoided by early diagnosis and
appropriate management. Therapeutic phlebotomy is used to remove excess iron and maintain
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DL Witte, WH Crosby, CQ Edwards, VF Fairbanks, FA … - Clinica chimica acta, 1996 - Elsevier Hereditary hemochromatosis is an autosomal recessive disorder, the gene for which occurs in
approximately 10% of Americans, most of whom are unaffected heterozygotes. Approximately
5/1000 white Americans are homozygous and at risk of developing severe and potentially ... Cited by 259 - Related articles - All 4 versions
- ►annals.org LW Powell, DK George, SM McDonnell, KV … - Annals of internal …, 1998 - Am Coll Physicians 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 ... Cited by 182 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 5 versions
- ►annals.org ME Cogswell, SM McDonnell, MJ Khoury, … - Annals of internal …, 1998 - Am Coll Physicians Published clinical research offers little evidence to suggest that population screening for hemochromatosis
done by using genetic testing improves clinical outcomes.Although one recently discovered
mutation, C282Y, accounts for 60% to 92% of cases of the disease in series of patients ... Cited by 116 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 4 versions
SM McDonnell, BL Preston, SA Jewell, JC Barton, … - The American journal of …, 1999 - Elsevier RESULTS: Of the 2,851 respondents, 99% were white and 62% were men. Circumstances that
led to diagnosis of hemochromatosis included symptoms (35%), an abnormal laboratory test
(45%), and diagnosis of a family member with hemochromatosis (20%). The mean (± SD) ... Cited by 127 - Related articles - All 3 versions
- ►scripps.edu [PDF] JC Barton, WWH Shih, R Sawada-Hirai, RT Acton, … - Blood Cells, Molecules …, 1997 - Elsevier ABSTRACT: We evaluated Alabama hemochromatosis probands (n= 74) and normal control
subjects (n= 142) for expression of the hemochromatosis-associated mutations nt 845G→A
(845A; Cys282Tyr) and nt 187C→G (His63Asp) in a gene linked to the major ... Cited by 140 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 6 versions
PC Adams, Y Deugnier, R Moirand, P Brissot - Hepatology, 1997 - interscience.wiley.com The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between iron overload, age, and clinical
symptoms in genetic hemochromatosis. The relationship was studied between clinical symptoms
and liver iron concentration, serum ferritin, and iron removed in a retrospective study of ... Cited by 178 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 4 versions
- ►annals.org SM McDonnell, PD Phatak, V Felitti, A Hover … - Annals of internal …, 1998 - Am Coll Physicians Interest in including screening for hemochromatosis in the routine medical care of adults has
grown in recent years.In March 1997, at a meeting on iron overload at the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention, the directors of four hemochromatosis screening programs ... Cited by 79 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 4 versions
- ►annals.org Q Yang, SM McDonnell, MJ Khoury, J Cono, … - Annals of internal …, 1998 - Am Coll Physicians Add to CiteULike Add to Complore Add to Connotea Add to Del.icio.us Add to Digg Add to Facebook
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