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Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases > Metabolic Diseases > Iron Metabolism Disorders > Iron Overload

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Iron Overload  

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  • disord of iron metab

Scope note

  • An excessive accumulation of iron in the body due to a greater than normal absorption of iron from the gastrointestinal tract or from parenteral injection. This may arise from idiopathic hemochromatosis, excessive iron intake, chronic alcoholism, certain types of refractory anemia, or transfusional hemosiderosis. (From Churchill's Illustrated Medical Dictionary, 1989)

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  • 97; was see HEMOSIDEROSIS 1996

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D019190

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