Tag Yelena Z. Ginzburg MD

Therapeutic phlebotomy entails the removal of blood to treat diseases in which decreasing red blood cell (RBC) mass, hematocrit, and blood viscosity, or inducing iron restriction, enabling management of disease-associated symptoms and complications. Standardized indications for therapeutic phlebotomy for each…

Iron overload is an excess of systemic iron, leading to its progressive accumulation in vital organs (e.g., liver, heart, pancreas, and endocrine organs). When untreated, iron overload increases the risk of liver cirrhosis, heart failure, diabetes mellitus, osteoporosis, hypogonadism, and…