Then in December, she underwent genetic testing and met with a hematologist, finding out she has hemochromatosis. "Essentially, my body and blood have an extremely high and dangerous amount of ...

We tested the hypothesis that the hepatic siderosis that characterizes sporadic porphyria cutanea tarda is due to the presence of HLA-linked hemochromatosis alleles. We studied 21 probands with ...

An additional case of xanthinuria observed in a forty-seven-year-old man with hemochromatosis is presented below in detail because the coincidence of these two rare diseases or defects in 1 person ...

Present understanding of the true nature of hemochromatosis is so inadequate that conceptual problems seem to arise with each new pertinent observation. The case of xanthinuria and hemochromatosis ...

HFE-related hemochromatosis (HH) is the most common genetic iron overload disease in European populations, particularly of Nordic or Celtic origin (Powell et al., 2016; Brissot et al., 2018). The most ...

A paradox of genetic hemochromatosis is the observation that the disease is underdiagnosed in the general population and overdiagnosed in patients with secondary iron overload. The relationship ...