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Importance of serum ferritin levels in patients with renal failure
Neşe E Gülçelik1, Mansur Kayataş
1Department of Nephrology, Ankara Numune Hospital, Ankara, Turkey.
Nephron
|August 21, 2002
Abstract:
Study results on acute phase reactants of renal failure patients are controversial. In this study, we enrolled 39 patients and divided them into 2 groups: acute renal failure (ARF), and chronic renal failure (CRF) patients. As opposed to CRF patients, the patients with ARF had higher serum ferritin levels that were independent of anemia parameters and other acute phase reactants.