(December 6, 2015 at 2:43 pm)mh.brewer Wrote:(December 6, 2015 at 2:21 pm)Thena323 Wrote: What's wrong? I thought that therapeutic phlebotomy is the most common treatment for iron overload.
Nope. Mainly in hereditary hemochromatosis and then there are complications/co-morbidity to consider. Why would you bleed someone out that you gave a blood transfusion to? Standard is chelation therapy.
Edited my first post to you with chelation in mind, but you were already composing your response. I'm still getting phlebotomy as the standard treatment in my searches, but I am seeing a lean towards oral chelation therapy in patients with normal ferritin levels.
