Elevated serum ferritin as a predictor of complications in cirrhotic patients: a retrospective cohort study [PDF]
Introduction Cirrhosis is a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide [1]. While serum ferritin is recognized as a marker of liver injury and inflammation, its prognostic value for cirrhosis-related complications is not well established.
Maissae Rahaoui +6 more
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Longitudinal relationships between serum ferritin and prognosis among severe community-acquired pneumonia patients [PDF]
BackgroundFerritin is one of the major intracellular iron storage proteins and is implicated in the pathophysiological processes of many inflammatory diseases, but its function in community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) was unclear.
Jing Xu +14 more
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Association between serum ferritin and mortality in patients with severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome: A retrospective cohort study. [PDF]
The role of serum ferritin, an acute-phase inflammatory marker, in predicting mortality in patients with severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS) is not fully understood.
Wenyan Xiao +6 more
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Serum ferritin and iron deficiency in adolescent schoolchildren with depression in northern Sudan: unmatched case-control study [PDF]
BackgroundThe direction of the association between depression and serum ferritin among adolescents needs to be explored further. There is no data on the association between serum ferritin and depression in Sudan.
Ahmed A. Hassan +2 more
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Serum ferritin levels and risk of gestational diabetes mellitus: A cohort study [PDF]
Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is a glucose metabolism disorder with an unclear etiology that occurs specifically during pregnancy. While elevated serum ferritin levels have been reported to increase the risk of GDM, these findings lack validation ...
Yupei Xie +5 more
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Association between serum ferritin and uric acid levels and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in the Chinese population [PDF]
Background The prevalence of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is increasing worldwide. Accumulating evidence suggests that serum ferritin and uric acid (UA) are strongly associated with the risk of NAFLD, but no consensus has been reached ...
Fangli Zhou +5 more
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Ischaemic strokes in patients with pulmonary arteriovenous malformations and hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia: associations with iron deficiency and platelets. [PDF]
BackgroundPulmonary first pass filtration of particles marginally exceeding ∼7 µm (the size of a red blood cell) is used routinely in diagnostics, and allows cellular aggregates forming or entering the circulation in the preceding cardiac cycle to lodge ...
AD Kjeldsen +83 more
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Correlation of serum ferritin with severity of liver disease
Background and Aim: Serum ferritin is a marker of hepatic inflammation and has been studied to predict mortality in decompensated cirrhotics. No study has been done to evaluate ferritin as an independent marker of liver disease severity.
Garyll Ryan Tariang Blah, R S Tonk
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An elevated ferritin level was discovered during an anemia evaluation in a 46-year-old man with inflammatory arthritis. The patient reported pain in multiple joints for which he took indomethacin. He also consumed 2 alcoholic beverages daily. His mother had inflammatory arthritis and his sister had lupus.
Lisa B, VanWagner, Richard M, Green
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Serum levels and positive rates of tumor biomarkers in oral precancer patients
Background/Purpose: Several previous studies have reported higher serum tumor marker levels in patients with oral or head and neck squamous cell carcinomas. This study evaluated whether 232 patients with oral precancerous lesions (oral precancer patients)
Yu-Hsueh Wu +4 more
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