How would you approach the management of a patient with elevated iron saturation (60%) and ferritin (500s) with negative genetic testing for hemochromatosis?
What kind of further monitoring do you perform?
Answer from: at Academic Institution
I would approach this clinical scenario in the following manner:
Always starting with good medical and family history first.
Is there any history compatible with secondary hemochromatosis (i.e., history of blood or multiple iron transfusions)?
Could the patient be tested for other non-282Y gene...