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Is This a Hemochromatosis?
Two out of every three people with alcohol related liver disease will have elevated ferritin. There's the inflammation, there's the hepatocyte cell death. And then there's the fact that alcohol is itself a influence on hepside. So you're going to see it more commonly in people with ALD than those with NASH. Wado: Is there any particular patient or phenotype where you think, well, this is one I need to test for hemochromatosis? Nadeau: If we come back to the basics diagnosing and treating hemochromAtosis, if you have an elevated ferritins by that, greater transference saturations can be seen.