Case 25-2021: A 48-Year-Old Man with Fatigue and Leg Swelling

N Engl J Med. 2021 Aug 19;385(8):745-754. doi: 10.1056/NEJMcpc2100282.

Authors

Amber B Moore¹, Jonathan R Wing¹, Reece J Goiffon¹, Rebecca K Leaf¹, Lana Tsao¹, Joseph Misdraji¹

Affiliation

¹ From the Departments of Medicine (A.B.M., J.R.W., R.K.L., L.T.), Radiology (R.J.G.), and Pathology (J.M.), Massachusetts General Hospital, and the Departments of Medicine (A.B.M., J.R.W., R.K.L., L.T.), Radiology (R.J.G.), and Pathology (J.M.), Harvard Medical School - both in Boston.

PMID: 34407347
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMcpc2100282

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Publication types

Case Reports
Clinical Conference

MeSH terms

Cardiomyopathies / etiology
Diabetes Mellitus / etiology
Diagnosis, Differential
Edema / etiology
Fatal Outcome
Fatigue / etiology
Hemochromatosis / complications
Hemochromatosis / diagnosis*
Hemochromatosis / drug therapy
Hemochromatosis / genetics
Humans
Iron / blood*
Iron / metabolism
Iron Chelating Agents / therapeutic use
Leg
Male
Middle Aged
Transferrin / metabolism

Substances

Iron Chelating Agents
Transferrin
Iron