Hemochromatosis

Secondary hemochromatosis. I. Transfusion (exogenous) hemochromatosis.

(" bronszed diabetes ") is a condition of unknown etiology in which the body iron stores are vastly inscreased ansd in which there is portal cirrhosis of the liver. Diabetes, pigmenstation of the skins, and pan-creatic fibrosis are frequently, though not invariably, present. Numerous blood transsfusionss ins certain patienits have resulted ins the productions of a condition clinically somewhat ...

Experimental Hemochromatosis

In pernicious anemia and hemochromatosis an iron-containing pigment, hemosiderin, ordinarily derived from hemoglobin, is deposited in organs free from such pigment in most conditions that involve blood destruction. When sudden hemolysis takes place in a previously healthy human being, as after cutaneous burns or the action of a "blood poison," hemosiderin granules appear in the spleen, the red ...

Neonatal hemochromatosis.

Hemochromatosis Update.

Hereditary hemochromatosis.

Hereditary hemochromatosis is definitively diagnosed based on liver biopsy findings.