Open AccessHereditary Hemochromatosis (Clinical case)
Author(s) -
Bruno Sousa,
Nélson Tavares
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
jornal de investigação biomédica e biofarmacêutica/jornal de investigação biomédica e biofarmacêutica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2182-2379
pISSN - 2182-2360
DOI - 10.19277/bbr.18.2.263
Subject(s) - hemochromatosis , hereditary hemochromatosis , medicine , pediatrics , rheumatology
A sixty-eight-year-old retired man was sent for Nutrition Consultation by his family doctor due to hereditary hemochromatosis (homozygosity H63D) and other pathologies that require nutritional therapy. He was also sent to a Transfusion Medicine and Rheumatology Consultation. Keywords: hereditary hemochromatosis, excess iron absorption, organ and tissue damage