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How often do you follow ferritin and organ iron-deposition in a patient who has known hereditary hemochromatosis, but no current evidence of iron overload?

e.g. a genetic mutation picked up through a family member
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Hematology · Georgetown University School of Medicine
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Once diagnosis is made, I stress blood donation or less optimally, therapeutic phlebotomy. If donation every 56 days until ferritin <100 and TSAT <30. This assumes asymptomatic without LFT abnormality. Thereafter the intervals can be adjusted to keep parameters in the desired range. I never follow o...

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