Secondary hemochromatosis as a result of acute transfusion-induced iron overload in a burn patient

BACKGROUND: Red blood cell transfusions are critical in burn management. The subsequent iron overload that can occur from this treatment can lead to secondary hemochromatosis with multi-organ damage. CASE PRESENTATION: While well recognized in patients receiving chronic transfusions, we present a ca...

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Autores principales: Amatto, Michael, Acharya, Hernish
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4964147/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27574680
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41038-016-0034-z
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description BACKGROUND: Red blood cell transfusions are critical in burn management. The subsequent iron overload that can occur from this treatment can lead to secondary hemochromatosis with multi-organ damage. CASE PRESENTATION: While well recognized in patients receiving chronic transfusions, we present a case outlining the acute development of hemochromatosis secondary to multiple transfusions in a burn patient. CONCLUSIONS: Simple screening laboratory measures and treatment options exist which may significantly reduce morbidity; thus, we believe awareness of secondary hemochromatosis in those treating burn patients is critical.
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spelling pubmed-49641472016-08-29 Secondary hemochromatosis as a result of acute transfusion-induced iron overload in a burn patient Amatto, Michael Acharya, Hernish Burns Trauma Case Report BACKGROUND: Red blood cell transfusions are critical in burn management. The subsequent iron overload that can occur from this treatment can lead to secondary hemochromatosis with multi-organ damage. CASE PRESENTATION: While well recognized in patients receiving chronic transfusions, we present a case outlining the acute development of hemochromatosis secondary to multiple transfusions in a burn patient. CONCLUSIONS: Simple screening laboratory measures and treatment options exist which may significantly reduce morbidity; thus, we believe awareness of secondary hemochromatosis in those treating burn patients is critical. BioMed Central 2016-05-02 /pmc/articles/PMC4964147/ /pubmed/27574680 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41038-016-0034-z Text en © The Author(s) 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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title_short Secondary hemochromatosis as a result of acute transfusion-induced iron overload in a burn patient
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