Screening Primary Care Patients for Hereditary Hemochromatosis with Transferrin Saturation and Serum Ferritin Level: Systematic
Review for the American College of Physicians
- Brian Schmitt, MD, MPH;
- Robert M. Golub, MD; and
- Richard Green, MD
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From Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, Illinois; Hines Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Hines, Illinois; and Feinberg
School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois.
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Appendix Figure 1. The selection and exclusion of articles to address subquestion 1 about the prevalence of hereditary hemochromatosis.
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Appendix Figure 2. The selection and exclusion of articles to address subquestion 2 about the magnitude of complications with primary iron overload
(biochemical measures).
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Appendix Figure 3. The selection and exclusion of articles to address subquestion 2 about the magnitude of complications with primary iron overloading
(iron deposition).
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Appendix Figure 4. The selection and exclusion of articles to address subquestion 3 about the diagnostic usefulness of transferrin saturation
and serum ferritin level.
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Appendix Figure 5. The selection and exclusion of articles to address subquestion 4 about the treatment of hereditary hemochromatosis.
Responses to this article
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Ann Intern Med
October 4, 2005
vol. 143
no. 7
522-536