1. Serum ferritin: it may guide the diagnosis of the anaemic patient
- Author
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Smith Ad and Cochran Km
- Subjects
Adult ,Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Disease ,Cecal Neoplasms ,030204 cardiovascular system & hematology ,Gastroenterology ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Fatal Outcome ,Crohn Disease ,Internal medicine ,Medicine ,Humans ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Serum ferritin ,biology ,Anemia, Iron-Deficiency ,business.industry ,Liver Neoplasms ,Acute-phase protein ,General Medicine ,Iron deficiency ,medicine.disease ,Ferritin ,Ferritins ,biology.protein ,business ,Biomarkers - Abstract
Crohn's disease is often complicated by anaemia. Assessment of iron deficiency may be hampered by modification of the serum ferritin concentration because of the associated acute phase response when disease is active. However a ferritin value of
- Published
- 1998