Handbook of Iron Overload Disorders

A practical clinically-oriented handbook of iron overload disorders giving a compact guide to normal iron metabolism iron-related pathobiology and the diagnosis and management of heritable and acquired iron overload disorders. Many of these disorders were discovered and characterized only in the last decade and are unmentioned or inadequately described in most texts. Written by clinicians for clinicians this handbook summarizes information on diverse iron overload conditions including their history signs symptoms physical examination findings genetics genotype-phenotype correlations pathophysiology differential diagnosis and treatment. Most physicians regardless of specialty encounter patients with systemic or organ-specific iron overload conditions. This book contains essential information for practising adult and pediatric medical specialists in the fields of hematology gastroenterology hepatology rheumatology endocrinology diabetology neurology oncology dermatology and internal medicine. Pathologists pharmacologists geneticists genetic counselors and epidemiologists will also find substantial up-to-date sections in this handbook that are pertinent to their respective fields of interest.