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Internal Medicine • Hematology • Pediatric Hematology • Benign Hematology • Iron Homeostasis
How often should you repeat iron testing in patients with hemochromatosis, not on phlebotomy?
Patient with ferritin level <1000 ng/mL and no evidence of end-organ damage
Answer from: Medical Oncologist at Academic Institution
I can't think of a reason in the world to not do phlebotomy either therapeutically or through donation until TSAT is around 30 and ferritin is <100. I try to keep my hemochromatosis patients low, not high normal because the propensity for high TSATs makes subclinical deposition easy. I don't thin...
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