Response to the letter to the editor entitled “Regarding long-term lead elimination from plasma and whole blood after poisoning”
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Ad (1): All Wve cases had serum creatinine concentrations within the reference limits of our laboratory. Determination of blood urea nitrogen is not a clinical routine in our department. As regards serum transferases, case No. 3 had a slight, transient rise initially [aspartate aminotransferase: 0.88 (upper reference limit 0.60) kat/L; alanine aminotransferase: 1.1 (0.75) kat/L)], while all the others were “normal”. Cases No. 1, 3, and 5 had typical microcytic sideroblastic anemia in bone marrow biopsies. Only case No. 5 was examined for basophilic stippling of erythrocytes in peripheral blood; he displayed such.
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