The role of serum ferritin in the diagnosis of iron deficiency anaemia in patients with liver cirrhosis

Journal of Internal Medicine

Volumn 243, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 233-241

  Intragumtornchai, T ^a,b   Rojnukkarin, P ^a   Swasdikul, D ^a   Israsena, S ^a  

^a CHULALONGKORN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b KING CHULALONGKORN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Anaemia; Diagnostic tests; Iron deficiency; Liver cirrhosis; Serum ferritin

Indexed keywords

FERRITIN; IRON DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; IRON THERAPY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT PLANNING; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ADULT; AGED; ANEMIA, IRON-DEFICIENCY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FERRITINS; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; ROC CURVE;

EID: 0031837617     PISSN: 09546820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2796.1998.00290.x     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. Sheehy TW, Berman A. The anaemia of cirrhosis. J Lab Clin Med 1960; 56: 72-82.
2. Berman L, Axelrod A, Horan TN, Jacobson SD, Sharp EA, VonderHeide EC. The blood and bone marrow in patients with cirrhosis of the liver. Blood 1949; 4: 511-33.
3. Phillips DL, Keefe EB. Haematologic manifestations of gastrointestinal disease. Hematol Oncol Clin North Am 1987; 1: 207-28.
4. Kimber C, Deller DJ, Ibbotson RN, Lander H. The mechanism of anaemia in chronic liver disease. Q J Med 1964; 34: 33-64.
5. Prieto J, Barry M, Sherlock S. Serum ferritin in patients with iron overload and with acute and chronic liver disease. Gastroenterol 1975; 68: 525-33.
6. Bothwell TH, Charlton RW, Cook Jd Finch CA. Iron metabolism in man. Oxford: Blackwell Scientific Publications; 1979: 304.
7. Herbert V, Zalusky R, Davidson C. Correlation of folate deficiency with alcoholism and associated macrocytosis, anaemia and liver disease. Ann Intern Med 1963; 38: 977-88.
8. Jacobs A, Worwood M. The clinical use of serum ferritin estimation. Br J Haematol 1975; 31: 1-3.
9. Guyatt GH, Oxman AD, Ali M, Willan A, Mcllroy W, Petterson C. Laboratory diagnosis of iron-deficiency anaemia: an overview. J Gen Intern Med 1992; 7: 145-53.
10. Intragumtornchai T, Rojnukkarin P, Swasdikul D. Vajanamarhutue C, Israsena S. Anaemias in Thai patients with cirrhosis. Int J Hematol 1997; 65: 365-73.
11. Bothwell TH, Conrad ME, Cook JD. The measurement of total and unsaturated iron-binding capacity in serum. Br J Haematol 1978; 38: 281-8.
12. Beutler E. Blood, marrow and urine iron stains. In: Beutler E, Litchman MA, Coller Bs, Kipps TJ. eds. Williams Hematology, 5th edn. New York; McGraw-Hill; 1995: L27.
13. Hanley JA. McNeil BJ. A method of comparing the areas under receiver operating characteristic curves derived from the same cases. Radiol 1983; 148: 839-43.
14. Worwood M. Ferritin in human tissues and serum. Clin Haematol 1982; 11: 275-307.
15. Cooper RA, Diloy-Puray M, Lando P, Greenberg NS. An analysis of lipoproteins, bile acids and red cell membranes associated with target cells and spur cells in patients with liver disease. J Clin Invest 1972; 51: 3182-92.
16. Lipschitz DA, Cook JD, Finch CA. A clinical evaluation of serum ferritin as an index of iron stores. N Eng J Med 1974; 290: 1213-6.
17. Nelson R, Chawla M, Connolly P, LaPorte J. Ferritin as an index of bone marrow iron stores. Southern Med J 1978; 71: 1482-4.
18. Jaeschke R, Guyatt GH, Sackett DL. Users' guides to the medical literature: III How to use an article about a diagnostic test. JAMA 1994; 271: 703-7.
19. Fagan TJ. Nomogram for Bayer's theorem. N Engl J Med 1975; 293: 257.
20. Brown RD, Benfatto J, Gibson J, Kronenberg H. Red cell ferritin and iron stores in patients with chronic disease. Eur J Haematol 1988; 40: 136-41.
21. Isa L, Jean G, Silvani A, Arosio P, Taccagni GL. Evaluation of iron stores in patients with alcoholic liver disease: role of red cell ferritin. Acta Haematol 1988; 80: 85-8.
22. Farinati F, Cardin R, De Maria N, Della Libera G, Marafin C, Lecis E et al. Iron storage, lipid peroxidation and glutathione turnover in chronic anti-HCV positive hepatitis. J Hepatol 1995; 22: 449-56.
23. Olynyk JK, Reddy KR, Di Bisceglie AM, Jeffers LJ, Parker TI, Radick JL et al. Hepatic iron concentration as a predictor of response to interferon alpha therapy in chronic hepatitis C. Gastroenterol 1995; 108: 1104-9.
24. Haque S, Chandra B, Gerbet MA, Lok AS. Iron overload in patients with chronic hepatitis C: a clinicopathologic study. Hum Pathol 1996; 27: 1277-81.
25. Luengrojanakul P, Vareesangthip K, Chainuvati T, Murata K, Tsuda F, Tokita H et al. Hepatitis C virus infection in patients with chronic liver disease or chronic renal failure and blood donors in Thailand. J Med Virol 1994; 44: 287-92.
26. Infante-Rirard, Esnaola S, Villeneuve JP. Clinical and statistical validity of conventional prognostic factors in predicting short-term survival among cirrhotics. Hepatol 1987; 7: 660-4.
27. Streiner DL, Norman GR, eds. Health Measurement Scales: a Practical Guide to Their Development and Use. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1991; 8.