Conditions associated with extreme hyperferritinaemia (>3000μg/L) in adults

Internal Medicine Journal

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 828-833

  Wormsbecker, A J ^a   Sweet, D D ^a   Mann, S L ^a   Wang, S Y ^a   Pudek, M R ^a   Chen, L Y C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ferritin; Haemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis; Hyperferritinaemia

Indexed keywords

FERRITIN;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ADULT ONSET STILL DISEASE; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; DIALYSIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EXTREME HYPERFERRITINEMIA; FEMALE; FERRITIN BLOOD LEVEL; GENERAL HOSPITAL; HEMOCHROMATOSIS; HEMOGLOBINOPATHY; HEMOPHAGOCYTIC SYNDROME; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; HYPERFERRITINEMIA; INFECTION; INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; IRON OVERLOAD; KIDNEY FAILURE; LIVER DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUATERNARY CARE HOSPITAL; BLOOD; COMPLICATION; FACTUAL DATABASE; LYMPHOHISTIOCYTOSIS, HEMOPHAGOCYTIC; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FERRITINS; HUMANS; IRON OVERLOAD; LIVER DISEASES; LYMPHOHISTIOCYTOSIS, HEMOPHAGOCYTIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84937869949     PISSN: 14440903     EISSN: 14455994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/imj.12768     Document Type: Article

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