background: it is intriguing and imperative that the comparison of the iron preparations in hemodialysis (hd) patients. th is study aimed to observe the short-term effi cacy of parenteral iron sucrose and ferric chloride in hd patients. materials and methods: this was a consecutive 10-week single-blind study in taiwan. an intravenous iron supplement of 100 mg/week was administered as an infusio...

Introduction: Iron deficiency anemia is recognized as the most prevalent nutrient deficiency in the world and iron supplements, which are prescribed daily in pregnant women for prevention of this anemia, may have unfavorable effects on copper absorption. The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of iron supplementation on serum copper status of pregnant women. Materials and Methods...

although, iron depletion is a common disorder among athletes, little data exist regarding the effect of gymnastic training on iron status. the objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of gymnastic exercise on body iron status and hematologic profile. the present investigation involved 35 male gymnasts aged from 6 to14 yrs. serum ferritin level, total iron binding capacity (tibc), iron...

OBJECTIVE In patients with chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection, it is not known whether altered serum iron markers are directly because of the infection or the associated liver injury. We determined the serum iron status of patients with chronic HBV infection, and investigated whether it is HBV infection or HBV-related liver injury that likely causes abnormal serum iron markers in chronic...

BACKGROUND Hepcidin is a key regulator of iron homeostasis, but to date no studies have examined the effect of hepcidin on iron absorption in humans. OBJECTIVE Our objective was to assess relations between both serum hepcidin and serum prohepcidin with nonheme-iron absorption in the presence and absence of food with the use of dual stable-iron-isotope techniques. DESIGN The study group incl...

background: iron chelators are an important part of management of patients with thalassemia. it is prudent to compare efficacy of different iron chelators in treatment of iron overload in these patients who receive regular blood transfusion. we aimed to compare the efficacy and safety of available oral iron chelator; deferasirox (exjade®) with deferasirox (osveral®) in reducing iron overload in...

"Free" iron, a potentially radical-generating low mass iron, and not found in normal human blood, was increased in the serum of blood-transfused thalassemia major patients seen in the Yangon General Hospital, Yangon, Myanmar (Burma). The low mass iron was detected by the bleomycin assay. Fifty-one blood samples were analyzed (from 28 males and 23 females). High "free" iron was detected in 47 se...

The iron balance of 25 adolescent dancers and 23 control females of the same age were studied. The concentrations of fasting blood haemoglobin, serum iron, serum transferrin and serum ferritin were determined. Iron supplementation (ferrous sulphate corresponding to 100 mg of elemental iron per day) was instigated if body iron stores were low (serum ferritin < 30 gg.l-1). Blood samples were draw...

In an effort to find practical means of distinguishing iron deficiency anemias from other types in large population groups, an investigation was made of the possibility of measuring iron in an amount of blood serum obtainable from the finger. Iron deficiency anemias are characterized by low serum iron, while other states of diminished hemoglobin formaCon show normal or even high values for seru...