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Old Thu Oct 30, 2014, 03:12 PM
Birgitta-A Birgitta-A is offline
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Ferritin

Hi Teo!
Your mother's ferritin is really quite high. Many articles about iron overload for low risk MDS patients looked at iron in the liver and in the heart. Some doctors thought that iron in these organs not was so dangerous for MDS patients as for patients with blood diseases from childhood like Thalassemia.

Today they write more about iron's adverse effects on young red blood cells (erythroid precursors).
http://www.bloodjournal.org/content/...o-checked=true

I have got 75 Desferal infusions during 4 days from a small home pump in connection with TXs without adverse effects. Do you know how your mother's doctor will administrate Desferal?
Kind regards
Birgitta-A
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