Hyperferritinemia Has Multifactorial Etiology in Naive Patients with Chronic Hepatitis C

Abstract

Journal of clinical gastroenterology is part of the Juniper publishers which is devoted to publish subject-specific articles focused on the needs of individual research communities across all areas of biology and medicine. Traditionally, elevated serum ferritin is related to the presence of iron accumulation in the body, especially in the liver. However, in chronic hepatitis C several other factors have been alternatively associated with hyperferritinemia, such as liver enzymes, metabolic factors, hepatic steatosis and liver fibrosis. This study aimed to evaluated the exact contribution of these variables to ferritin serum levels in chronic hepatitis.