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Review
. 2002 Mar;176(2):110-4.

Should all patients with diabetes mellitus be screened for hemochromatosis?

Paula Cifuentes Henderson  1 , Patrick Dowling, Rikio Ozaki
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Review

Should all patients with diabetes mellitus be screened for hemochromatosis?

Paula Cifuentes Henderson et al. West J Med. 2002 Mar.
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Figure 1
Abdominal computed tomographic scan showing a normal pancreas and a nonspecific, homogeneously slightly increased density found throughout the liver.
Figure 2
Figure 2
Screening algorithm for hereditary hemochromatosis in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM II). TS = transferrin saturation; AST/ALT = aspartate aminotransferase and/or alanine aminotransferase; HIC = hepatic iron concentration; and HII = hepatic iron index.
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