"Iron Overload" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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An excessive accumulation of iron in the body due to a greater than normal absorption of iron from the gastrointestinal tract or from parenteral injection. This may arise from idiopathic hemochromatosis, excessive iron intake, chronic alcoholism, certain types of refractory anemia, or transfusional hemosiderosis. (From Churchill's Illustrated Medical Dictionary, 1989)
| Descriptor ID |
D019190
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C18.452.565.500
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| 2004 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2005 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2007 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2008 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2009 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2012 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2013 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2023 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Iron Overload" by people in Profiles.
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Transfusion-related iron overload in survivors of childhood cancer. Blood Cells Mol Dis. 2026 Mar; 117:102977.
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Cardiovascular function and treatment in ?-thalassemia major: a consensus statement from the American Heart Association. Circulation. 2013 Jul 16; 128(3):281-308.
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Automated T(2) * measurements using supplementary field mapping to assess cardiac iron content. J Magn Reson Imaging. 2013 Aug; 38(2):441-7.
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Simultaneous field and R2 mapping to quantify liver iron content using autoregressive moving average modeling. J Magn Reson Imaging. 2012 May; 35(5):1125-32.
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Oral iron chelation and the treatment of iron overload in a pediatric hematology center. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2009 May; 52(5):616-20.
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Iron-mediated regulation of liver hepcidin expression in rats and mice is abolished by alcohol. Hepatology. 2007 Dec; 46(6):1979-85.
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A prospective study of plasma ferritin level and incident diabetes: the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study. Am J Epidemiol. 2007 May 01; 165(9):1047-54.
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Effects of alcohol consumption on iron metabolism in mice with hemochromatosis mutations. Alcohol Clin Exp Res. 2007 Jan; 31(1):138-43.