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Treatment for hematomacrosis?
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Leeches: Well not really. You need phlebotomy... That you need to have blood removed weekly until your ferritin is less than 50. Then continued monitoring and "blood letting" to keep the ferritin low (<50).
Answered 9/28/2016
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Phlebotomy: Typical blood donor can give their donation, typically of 500cc of blood, about once every 8wks. A pt with new diagnosis of severe hemachomatosis may need to donate that much blood 2x/week for a while till the iron level gets down some. Then they can keep measure of the iron level, or ferritin, the nl reference is 50-150ng/ml, and a blood donation schedule is flexible to maintain.
Answered 7/2/2013
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