With the advent of noninvasive techniques to gauge iron overload such as MRI T2* and evaluation for cirrhosis by techniques such as transient elastography, serum hyaluronic acid levels ...

Often the iron overload remains undiagnosed until middle age, by which time organs are irreparably damaged, leading to pain, diabetes, heart arrhythmias and liver cirrhosis. In the mouse stand-in ...

Their presentations were quite different, but the two patients shared one thing in common: iron overload. Both ended up in ...

Loss-of-function mutations of the HFE gene lead to an autosomal recessive iron-overload disorder referred ... which increases their risk of developing liver disease and fatal organ damage, as ...

liver disease and cancer. That's why proper iron intake to both prevent deficiency and avoid toxicity is not a one-size-fits-all approach across populations, according to three new papers ...