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Serum Ferritin
Aka: Serum Ferritin, Ferritin
- See Also
- Iron Deficiency Anemia
- Hemochromatosis
- Acute Phase Reactant
- Indications
- Evaluation for Iron Deficiency Anemia
- Screening for Hemochromatosis
- Physiology
- Indicator of total body iron stores
- Most reliable indicator other than Bone Marrow
- Acute phase reactant
- Interpretation: Normal
- Range: 18-300 ng/ml
- Interpretation: Increased
- Inflammatory states
- Hyperthyroidism
- Liver disease (necrotic hepatocytes)
- Hodgkin's Lymphoma and Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma
- Leukemia
- Breast Cancer
- Neuroblastomas
- Hemochromatosis
- Iron Supplementation
- Still's Disease (very high, Ferritin >5000)
- Interpretation: Decreased
- Iron Deficiency Anemia