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Diagnosis and current treatments for primary iron overload
Author(s) -
Brissot Pierre
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
american journal of hematology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.456
H-Index - 105
eISSN - 1096-8652
pISSN - 0361-8609
DOI - 10.1002/ajh.21071
Subject(s) - hemochromatosis , medicine , hereditary hemochromatosis , differential diagnosis , intensive care medicine , pediatrics , pathology
Primary iron overload encompasses a variety of genetic iron overload syndromes, dominated in frequency by HFE‐related, or Type 1 hemochromatosis, for which French diagnostic and therapeutic guidelines have been recently proposed. Differential diagnosis of Type 1 hemochromatosis can be made from both clinical data and genetic studies. Venesection therapy and family screening remain the basis for the curative and preventive management of most genetic iron overload diseases. Am. J. Hematol., 2007. © 2007 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.