Distribution and quantitation of skin iron in primary haemochromatosis: correlation with total body iron stores in patients undergoing phlebotomy

Measurement of the concentration of iron in the skin, if correlated with total body iron stores, may enable better informed decisions on when to initiate, change or stop therapy in hereditary heamochromatosis. Naïve haemochromatosis patients with iron overload and with C282Y and/or H63D HFE mutation...

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Main Author: Pinheiro, Teresa (author)
Other Authors: Silva, Raquel (author), Fleming, Rita (author), Gonçalves, Afonso (author), Barreiros, M. Alexandra (author), Silva, João N. (author), Morlière, Patrice (author), Santus, René (author), Filipe, Paulo (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2014
Subjects:
Skin
Iron distribution
Haemochromatosis
Proton microscopy
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10400.9/2502
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorio.lneg.pt:10400.9/2502

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http://hdl.handle.net/10400.9/2502

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