High Ferritin App

Determining causes of High Ferritin

BMI

40
18.5
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ALT

150
0
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Possible causes for not iron overload high ferritin

Ferritin: BMI: ALT:

Possible diagnosis in descending order



The following information relating to High Ferritin, Haemochromatosis and the High Ferritin App can support clinicians meeting CPD requirements. Please refer to:

  1. Goot, Hazeldine, Bentley et al. Elevated serum ferritin - what should a GP know. Australian Family Physician 2012; (12), 41945-949. Please click Here to link to article.
  2. Bentley, Bell and Olynyk. Therapeutic Venesection at Australian Red Cross Lifeblood: Impact of the High Ferritin Application on Management of Hereditary Haemochromatosis. Australian Family Physician 2015; 44 (8) 589-592. Please click Here to link to article.
  3. Hemochromatosis classification: update and recommendations by the BIOIRON Society Domenico Girelli,1,* Fabiana Busti,1,* Pierre Brissot,2,* Ioav Cabantchik,3 Martina U. Muckenthaler,4-7 and Grac¸a Porto,8,9 on behalf of the Nomenclature Committee of the International Society for the Study of Iron in Biology and Medicine (BIOIRON Society)blood® 19 MAY 2022 | VOLUME 139, NUMBER 20
  4. Hemochromatosis John K. Olynyk, M.D., and Grant A. Ramm, Ph.D. N Engl J Med 2022;387:2159-70.  DOI: 10.1056/NEJMra2119758

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