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W2801077006 abstract "Genetic haemochromatosis (GH) is one of the most frequent genetic disorders found in Northern Europeans. GH is a condition caused by continued absorption of iron from the upper small intestine, despite normal, and then increased, total body iron. This leads to accumulation of iron in the tissues as the body has no means of getting rid of excess iron. In advanced disease, iron accumulation causes widespread tissue damage, including diabetes mellitus and cirrhosis. The disorder is inherited in autosomal recessive fashion. The gene involved lies close to the HLA-A region on chromosome 6. This updated guideline follows on from the previously published guideline commissioned by the British Committee for Standards in Haematology in February 2000 (Dooley & Worwood, 2000). This review and updated guidance coincides with the development of a separate guideline on the investigation and management of a raised serum ferritin, also commissioned by the BSH guidelines committee. The original literature review (Dooley & Worwood, 2000) was based on a total 40 years of experience in GH by the authors, on searching the literature using appropriate keywords (in Medline and BIDS) and a review of the existing guidelines published by Expert Groups. The guideline has now been updated to incorporate new evidence up to and including 2017, to coincide with the development of a Guideline for the diagnosis and management of a raised serum ferritin (Cullis et al, 2018). The BSH Guidelines Committee uses the GRADE nomenclature for evaluating levels of evidence and assessing the strength of recommendations in all Guidance. Details are available at http://www.gradeworkinggroup.org/index.htm In 1976 the results of a study of venesection therapy for the removal of excess iron from patients with GH were published (Bomford & Williams, 1976). The authors compared the survival of treated patients with that of historical controls (patients presenting with GH but not receiving phlebotomy). For patients receiving venesection therapy, life expectancy was significantly improved compared with that for untreated patients. This result has since been confirmed and extended in larger studies (Adams et al, 1991; Niederau et al, 1996). If phlebotomy is started before cirrhosis and diabetes have developed, life expectancy is normal. However, the obvious success of this treatment has meant that it has not been ethically acceptable to compare venesection with ‘no treatment’. For similar reasons, there have been no randomised controlled trials of the effect of treatment in genetically predisposed family members of probands with GH. Phlebotomy is undertaken if there is biochemical evidence of iron overload and it has not been acceptable to delay treatment in order to follow the development of clinical symptoms or assess the value of phlebotomy in preventing disease. For these reasons, there are no recommendations graded A. Body iron content is in the order of 4 g and is controlled by the complex regulation of dietary iron absorption from the upper gastrointestinal (GI) tract. There is no regulatory pathway for the excretion of excess iron and daily involuntary losses of ~1 mg occur via desquamation of cells in the GI tract. In females, additional iron loss occurs due to menstrual loss (15–40 mg iron per period) and pregnancy (net iron loss from placental transfer to fetus and blood loss at delivery is ~500 mg/pregnancy). As a result of these minor losses, the adult male/female will only require to absorb 1–2 mg/day of dietary iron to maintain normal iron balance. Most iron (3 g) is present in haemoglobin with some 300 mg in myoglobin. There are many iron containing enzymes involved in respiration in all tissues (100 mg), and there is a small amount of iron (4 mg) bound to transferrin (Tf) at any one time in the plasma and extravascular circulation. Transferrin is a glycoprotein produced in the liver and regulated by body iron stores. In iron deficiency, transferrin production increases and in iron overload decreases. Each Tf molecule has two iron binding domains. Over the course of 24 h however Tf will transport some 20–40 mg of iron from the body stores to the tissues. In health, Tf is approximately 30% saturated with iron with only some 10% in the diferric state although diferric Tf will appear more frequently as the transferrin saturation (Tsat) increases. All cells accept iron from Tf via interaction with their cell surface transferrin receptors (TfR) and will accept iron more readily from diferric rather than monoferric Tf (Young et al, 1984; Heubers et al, 1985). Macrophages of the reticuloendothelial system (RES) have an additional and far greater supply of iron from the ingestion and degradation of effete RBCs. Ferritin is present in all cells and provides safe iron storage in a readily accessible soluble form. In the event of intracellular iron excess, ferritin molecules may aggregate to form insoluble haemosiderin. The largest body stores of iron exist within the macrophages of the RES, which in health may store up to 1 g of iron as either ferritin or haemosiderin. A tiny amount of ferritin (serum ferritin, SF) can be detected in the serum. The source of this SF is unknown but it contains little iron and plays no role in iron metabolism. In the vast majority of patients without either tissue damage or inflammation, the SF value is directly proportional to the amount of RES macrophage storage iron (Worwood, 1982). It is reduced in states of iron deficiency and raised in states of iron overload. Control of iron metabolism is orchestrated by the hormone hepcidin, which, together with the iron transporter ferroportin, acts to regulate both the absorption of dietary iron and RES macrophage iron release (Nemeth et al, 2004). As serum iron levels rise, Tf levels fall, Tsat% rises and highly toxic non transferrin bound iron (NTBI) may appear in the plasma. Parenchymal cells will accept more Tf-iron as the Tsat% and diferric transferrin levels rise and have no defence against the entry of NTBI (Porter et al, 2014). Iron toxicity is thought to occur within the cell via pathways such as the Fenton reaction, free radical formation and lipid peroxidation. The syndrome now recognised as HFE-related haemochromatosis was first described in 1865 by Trousseau and the name was first used by von Recklinghausen in 1889. Sheldon (1935) reviewed more than 300 published cases and suggested that the disorder resulted from an inherited defect. A human leucocyte antigen (HLA)-class-I-like gene (HFE) was described by Feder et al (1996), in which there were mutations in most patients satisfying the diagnostic criteria for GH. Over 90% of patients with GH carry a mutation of the HFE gene at amino acid 282, which results in the replacement of cysteine by a tyrosine residue (C282Y). They also described a second variant at amino acid 63, in which aspartic acid replaced histidine (H63D). This second mutation is more common in the general population but is not usually associated with iron accumulation. Genetic haemochromatosis is one of the most frequent genetic disorders found in populations of northern European descent. It seldom causes end organ damage before the age of 30 years, is inherited in an autosomal recessive fashion and is characterised by excessive iron absorption from the GI tract, excessive iron release from RES macrophages, excessive iron saturation of plasma transferrin and, consequently, parenchymal iron overload and toxicity. The HFE gene product is a 343 residue type 1 transmembrane glycoprotein. This protein has a complex and as yet imperfectly understood interaction between transferrin receptor 2 (TfR2), haemojuvelin (HJV), bone morphogenic protein (BMP) receptor Alk3 and ligands that control hepcidin expression in hepatocytes (Wu et al, 2014). Hepcidin inhibits the efflux of iron from both enterocytes and RES macrophages by inducing the degradation of the iron exporter ferroportin. Hepcidin levels are suppressed in HFE GH, leading to reduced ferroportin degradation and increased iron efflux from enterocytes and macrophages (Fig 1). Variants C282Y and H63D of the HFE gene (chromosome 6p21.3) are the two polymorphisms most frequently associated with HFE GH. Studies of allele frequencies in northern European populations have reported 10–15% C282Y heterozygotes, 0·25–1·0% C282Y homozygotes, 20–30% H63D heterozygotes and about 2% C282Y/H63D compound heterozygotes (Worwood, 2005). Of the various possible genotype combinations, C282Y homozygotes are most at risk of iron overload and such homozygotes are responsible for some 90% of clinical cases. However, many young genetically predisposed homozygotes will have normal SF and/or Tsat. Over time, some 80% and 50% of these male and female homozygotes will show biochemical penetrance with raised Tsat and SF values. Clinical penetrance is considerably lower and the risk profile for iron loading for the possible genotypes can be summarised as follows: C282Y/C282Y >>> C282Y/H63D > C282Y/-, H63D/H63D, H63D/-. Compound heterozygotes (C282Y/H63D) will seldom develop clinically significant iron overload; additional factors, such as alcohol excess or metabolic syndrome, may contribute more to any hyperferritinaemia than the molecular abnormality itself (Cullis et al, 2018). Indeed, some recommend that molecular testing for GH should be confined to the C282Y mutation alone (Porto et al, 2016). In the UK, only C282Y heterozygotes are tested for the H63D mutation and in France laboratories are not reimbursed for H63D genotyping. Genetic haemochromatosis patients who lack C282Y mutations of the HFE gene may require sample referral to specialist centres for detection of very rare iron loading genotypes. Similarly, simple C282Y heterozygotes and C282Y/H63D compound heterozygotes with unexpected severe iron loading should also be investigated for possible digenic inheritance of other contributing iron loading genotypes (Merryweather-Clarke et al, 2003). In the UK this service is available at The Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford OX3 9DS (https://www.imm.ox.ac.uk) and through the clinical service provided by the UK Genetic Testing Network via Molecular Genetics at Cambridge University Hospitals (https://ukgtn.nhs.uk). This is a rare autosomal recessive disorder affecting either the HFE2 (also termed HJV) gene, encoding hemojuvelin (type 2A), or, more rarely, the HAMP gene, encoding hepcidin (type 2B). Iron overload is severe. It develops in younger patients and commonly causes cardiac failure from iron overload and panhypopituitarism (Porto et al, 2016). This is a rare autosomal recessive disorder caused by mutations in the TFR2 gene, encoding transferrin receptor 2. This type has been found in European and Japanese families, leads to high Tsat and a clinical phenotype similar, but intermediate in severity, to Type 1 and Type 2 GH (Olynyk et al, 2008). Type 4a is a rare autosomal dominant disorder with a broad geographical distribution including Asia. Mutations in the gene encoding ferroportin (SLC40A1) lead to ‘loss of ferroportin function’, reduced RES macrophage iron release and consequent RES iron overload. Serum ferritin is raised, with Tsat values either low or normal. Significant parenchymal iron overload and organ damage does not occur but iron deficiency anaemia can develop with venesection. Type 4b is also a rare disorder in which the mutations disrupt the ferroportin-hepcidin axis with ‘gain of ferroportin function’ causing a clinical phenotype similar to Type 1 GH (Olynyk et al, 2008). Iron overload, inherited in an autosomal dominant manner from a mutation in FTH1, affecting the iron responsive element of FTH1 mRNA has been described in a Japanese family (Kato et al, 2001). Early diagnosis is not easy, as the symptoms with which many patients present are relatively common and non-specific. Unfortunately, many patients in primary care in the UK with raised SF values are not screened for GH (Ogilvie et al, 2010). If patients are however diagnosed in the pre-cirrhotic, pre-diabetic stage and treated by venesection to remove the excess iron, then life expectancy is normal (Niederau et al, 1996). However, once cirrhosis and diabetes mellitus have developed, patients have a shortened life expectancy and, if cirrhosis is present, a high risk of liver cancer even when iron depletion has been achieved. It is therefore important to diagnose the condition as early as possible and multiple studies, as described below, have been performed to examine possible approaches to improve the early diagnosis. A study of 65 000 volunteers in Norway found that <10% of individuals with raised non-fasting Tsat had HFE GH (Asberg et al, 2001). As such, it is now recognised that the biological variability of serum iron levels and hence Tsat, limits the use of Tsat alone in screening for GH (Adams & Barton, 2007). Serum ferritin values are raised in about 80% of male and 50% of female homozygotes (Adams & Barton, 2007). Although measurement of SF might then be considered an effective approach for screening for GH, the vast majority of patients with raised SF do not have GH. The additional finding of a raised Tsat, however, does increase the likelihood of GH being the cause of a raised SF. The measurement of fasting morning Tsat values has long been advocated to assist the diagnosis of GH by avoiding the effects of diurnal variation and dietary intake on serum iron levels. However repeated venous sampling of patients is often impractical and although a raised Tsat in non-homozygotes may normalise when measured in the fasting state, they do not improve the predictive value of random Tsat for diagnosing HFE GH (Adams et al, 2005a). Four major studies of volunteer screening for GH have been reported: the Haemochromatosis and Iron-overload Screening (HEIRS) study (Adams et al, 2005b), the Scripps/Kaiser haemochromatosis screening study (Waalen et al, 2008), the Melbourne Collaborative Cohort study-Health Iron (Allen et al, 2008) and a study of 10 500 blood donors from South Wales (Jackson et al, 2001). A non-volunteer study of patients with raised SF values, taken at the initiative of Primary Care physicians, without influence from the laboratories or secondary care has also recently reported (Ogilvie et al, 2015). The results of these studies are summarised in Table 1. It is noted however that a limitation of these approaches to improve early diagnosis is that females predominate in both volunteer studies and General Practitioner requests for SF (Adams et al, 2005b), while clinically significant GH predominates in males. The different mean/median SF and Tsat values for newly diagnosed GH reflect the different age groups included in the four studies. The lowest values were found in the Welsh blood donor study which included subjects as young as 17 years with a mean age of 36 years (Jackson et al, 2001). The highest values were found in the Melbourne study which only accepted volunteers aged 40–70 years (Allen et al, 2008). The apparent predominance of new female homozygotes in the HEIRS, Melbourne and West of Scotland publications (Adams et al, 2005b; Allen et al, 2008; Ogilvie et al, 2015) simply reflects the predominance of female volunteers and patients. From the West of Scotland study (Ogilvie et al, 2015) the following predictive algorithm was developed to assist early diagnosis for patients >30 years in primary care; Males with SF >300 μ g/l and Tsat >50% and females with SF >200 μ g/l and Tsat >40% will have a 19% and 16% likelihood of being C282Y homozygotes. Taken together, these studies show that GH is almost exclusively a disease of white races, that >70% of patients/volunteers at the time of diagnosis have SF values <1000 μg/l, that male homozygotes have higher SF and Tsat values than female homozygotes and are 3–5 times more likely to have SF values >1000 μg/l. Serum ferritin values >1000 μg/l in homozygotes at presentation are significant as studies have shown that these patients are at greatest risk of clinical disease, cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma (Powell et al, 2006; Allen et al, 2008). However, most individuals with SF >1000 μg/l do not have GH (see Table 1). The HEIRS study of almost 100 000 multi-ethnic volunteers found 364 patients (of whom only 29 were C282Yhomozygotes) with SF values >1000 μg/l. Such high values were 2–3 times more prevalent in Blacks and Asians than in whites and were not related to HFE genotype. The prevalence of SF values >1000 μg/l appears to be more common in primary care patients (Ogilvie et al, 2010) than in volunteer studies but even in an area of high prevalence only 29 of 180 such patients were found to be C282Y homozygotes (Ogilvie et al, 2015). These and other studies have shown that SF values in adults with GH do not inevitably show a progressive rise and may remain relatively stable over many years (Olynyk et al, 2004; Waalen et al, 2008). Powell et al (2006) observed a subgroup of untreated homozygotes with normal SF values for up to 24 years. Presumably, a steady (but as yet unexplained) state develops in homozygotes when a certain level of iron is reached but that this level will differ between patients. Clinical penetrance is very much less common than biochemical penetrance and for this reason population screening for HFE genotype is not recommended. Unselected population screening for HFE gene mutation is not recommended. (1B) Different studies report different estimates of clinical penetrance that range from 0% (Jackson et al, 2001) and <1% (Beutler et al, 2002; Waalen et al, 2002) to 28–30% for male homozygotes and 1–11·5% for female homozygotes (Powell et al, 2005, 2006; Allen et al, 2008). These differences relate to the different study populations and their varying degrees of iron loading. Liver biopsy performed on 350 asymptomatic homozygotes (SF values usually >500 μg/l) found stage 2–4 hepatic fibrosis in 29·7% and 13·3% of male and female patients respectively. The presence of hepatic fibrosis and cirrhosis correlated significantly with hepatic iron concentration and SF in both men and women. No case of cirrhosis was found in patients with SF values <1000 μg/l (Powell et al, 2006). Liver biopsy is no longer required for GH diagnosis but remains important for both fibrosis assessment and exclusion of additional liver diseases, such as alcoholic and non-alcoholic fatty liver. The importance of fibrosis assessment is to select those who require surveillance for hepatocellular carcinoma, essentially those with cirrhosis. Significant fibrosis is excluded in C282Y homozygotes with normal transaminases and SF values <1000 μg/l (Guyader et al, 1998). In addition, transient elastography (TE, often referred to as FibroScan) can further refine the cohort that require biopsy. This non-invasive method of assessing liver fibrosis has been validated in most forms of chronic liver disease. The shear wave velocity correlates with liver stiffness, most accurately at the lower and higher ends of the range. In homozygotes with raised transaminases or SF values >1000 μg/l a TE <6·4 kPa excluded significant fibrosis whereas TE >13·9 kPa was predictive for severe fibrosis (Legros et al, 2015). Serum hyaluronic acid measurement has also shown excellent sensitivity and specificity for cirrhosis when values >46·5 ng/ml are obtained but this assay is not in routine clinical use (Crawford et al, 2009). GH patients who present with SF >1000 μg/l and any with raised transaminases should be referred to a hepatologist for fibrosis assessment and exclusion of cirrhosis. (1B) Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can be used for iron quantification with reasonable accuracy using the T2*method (St Pierre et al, 2005). The latter is helpful in patients negative for HFE mutations where SF may not correlate directly with the degree of body iron loading. MRI has the advantage over biopsy of being able to identify heterogeneous iron distribution within the liver. It may also obviate the immediate need for liver biopsy to determine the necessity for venesection in non-HFE cases. However, biopsy remains the gold standard for iron quantification, by which iron is typically graded 1–4 or, if needed, more accurately by measurement of the historical hepatic iron index (HII). Patients with unexplained significant iron overload should be considered for extended genetic testing. Liver biopsy is no longer required for diagnosis of HFE GH but may be required to assess the severity of fibrosis in GH patients with SF >1000 μg/l and or elevated transaminases. Transient elastography could be used to select which patients from this group require liver biopsy. (2C) Phlebotomy programmes deliver significant (7·5-fold) reduction in mean hepatic fibrosis scores. They have also been used to provide quantitative estimates of iron depletion leading to estimates that 1 μg/l SF in homozygotes represents approximately 3·3 mg of storage iron (Powell et al, 2006) and that SF values >900 μg/l correlate with >4 g of storage iron in men and >2 g in women (Gordeuk et al, 2008). Although ‘Bronzed Diabetes’ remains the historical moniker for GH, studies of HFE mutation frequencies in diabetes mellitus have not shown any increase in frequency compared with control groups (Frayling et al, 1998). However, these results more likely reflect the now overwhelming contribution of obesity to the development of diabetes rather than any lack of iron toxicity on the pancreas in GH. Hypogonadotropic hypogonadism can develop in cases with severe iron loading as the result of iron deposition in pituitary. Genetic haemochromatosis arthropathy typically affects the second and third metacarpophalangeal joints (painful handshake sign). It is unrelated to SF values and indeed seldom responds to venesection and iron depletion. It does however appear to develop more frequently in known homozygotes who fail to maintain Tsat <50% (Bardou-Jacquet et al, 2017). Cardiac toxicity in the form of cardiomyopathy and conduction defects can occur in GH but are more frequently seen in patients with transfusional iron overload. Symptoms are, however, often vague and longstanding. Nonetheless, suspicion should be raised for male subjects of north European ancestry presenting with unexplained weakness or fatigue, abnormal liver function tests, arthralgia/arthritis, impotence, diabetes of late onset, cirrhosis or bronze pigmentation. It is recommended that initial screening requests for GH in these patients should include full blood count (FBC), SF, serum iron and Tsat. There is no place for the single measurement of either SF or Tsat in the preliminary detection of GH. Both measurements are essential. Thereafter, for patients aged >30 years from Primary care in areas of high prevalence if SF is beyond the normal range (200 and 300 μg/l female:male and Tsat >40% and 50% (female:male) HFE genotyping should be performed with an expected diagnostic yield of almost 20% for HFE-GH (Ogilvie et al, 2015). There is no such evidence for patients aged <30 years but similar values might be expected, particularly in males. Raised SF values are found frequently in secondary care where they often occur in the context of alcohol abuse, established liver disease, malignant disease, renal dialysis, inflammatory disease and transfusional or secondary iron overload (see Cullis et al, 2018). There are already a high and increasing number of SF requests being made from primary care. These samples can be exploited to detect undiagnosed homozygotes (Ogilvie et al, 2015). In primary care, SF values above the upper limits of normal (300 μg/l for adult males and 200 μg/l for adult females) can be found in almost 20% of males aged >30 years and in 10% of females aged 50–70 years and 17% of females >70 years of age. These raised values frequently appear to be unexplained (Ogilvie et al, 2010). For such patients, FBC and Tsat values as described above should guide requests for HFE genotype. Siblings, parents and children (over the age of consent) of a patient should be offered testing. Testing of partners can assist in determining the risk for children. It is not recommended that family screening be performed after identification of a heterozygote carrier or, indeed, a compound heterozygote. Initial family screening should be as above but also include HFE genotype with expected frequencies of 25% and 50% for GH when parents are either both heterozygotes or one heterozygous and the other homozygous. Laboratory screening to include FBC, LFTs, SF, Tsat and HFE should be offered to family members after the diagnosis of HFE GH. Family screening should include parents (if available), siblings, partner and children (over the age of consent). Extended family screening is not recommended if an individual is identified as a C282Y/H63D compound heterozygote. (1B) Non C282Y homozygotes with significant iron loading as confirmed by magnetic resonance imaging and or liver biopsy should be investigated for rare iron loading genotypes or digenic inheritance. (1C) Following confirmation of GH, the decision to start venesection should be made on the basis of both clinical and laboratory findings. The frequency of venesections may need to be individualised, taking into account the presenting severity of iron overload, organ damage, age, comorbidities and tolerability of the procedure. The risks of venesection per se in a frail newly diagnosed patient with only minor iron loading may well outweigh any potential benefit. Venesection is indicated for all fit patients with biochemical iron overload with or without clinical features. In line with European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL) guidelines (European Association for the Study of the Liver, 2010) and previous British Committee for Standards in Haematology (BCSH) recommendations (Dooley & Worwood, 2000) this should initially be performed once weekly (450–500 ml, ~200–250 mg iron). Monitor Hb levels weekly, SF monthly and reduce rate of venesection if anaemia develops. Tsat should be measured every 1–3 months as a disproportionate fall in Tsat and Hb would occur if other factors (such as alcohol or metabolic syndrome) together with GH were contributing to the raised SF. Continue with venesection until SF concentration is 20–30 μg/l and Tsat is <50%. At diagnosis, all fit GH patients with biochemical iron loading should undergo weekly venesection until SF ∼20–30 μg/l and Tsat <50%. During this phase of venesection FBC should be monitored weekly and SF ± Tsat monitored monthly. Homozygotes with normal iron indices and compound heterozygotes with minimal elevation of iron indices may be suitable for blood donation and annual monitoring of SF and Tsat. (1B) In rare circumstances, such as juvenile haemochromatosis or delayed diagnosis, it may be necessary to use iron chelation therapy to reverse cardiac damage. Physicians dealing with the treatment of iron overload due to blood transfusion in patients with homozygous beta-thalassaemia have great expertise in dealing with heart failure and should be consulted. There is limited experience of using the oral iron chelator deferasirox (Exjade) in patients with C282Y homozygous GH and modest iron loading (median SF 645 μg/l). SF values were modestly reduced but significant patient withdrawal from GI, renal and hepatic toxicities was observed (Phatak et al, 2010). For those subjects identified by family screening as C282Y homozygous but without iron accumulation, it is reasonable to monitor SF and iron status at yearly intervals in order to detect the onset of tissue iron accumulation. These patients may be encouraged to become blood donors (see below). Once excess iron has been removed and treatment by phlebotomy has ceased, iron will begin to re-accumulate. The actual rate of re-accumulation cannot be predicted but will occur more rapidly in those with marked iron loading at presentation. Many patients appear to lose some or all iron loading tendency over time and maintain normal iron balance with decreasing need for venesection. Patients usually return to the outpatient clinic every 3–6 months, and further phlebotomy is carried out when necessary. The SF should be maintained at <50 μg/l. The question as to whether C282Y homozygotes with a raised Tsat despite SF < 50 μg/l should be treated has not been fully resolved. This situation is frequently found during maintenance. Previous BCSH guidelines (Dooley & Worwood, 2000) recommended that maintenance venesection programmes should maintain SF <50 μg/l and Tsat <50%. However, guidelines prepared by the American Association for the study of liver diseases (AASLD; Bacon et al, 2011) and EASL (European Association for the Study of the Liver, 2010) only recommend keeping SF values between 50 and 100 μg/l and do not recommend Tsat monitoring. For the reasons given below, we have chosen to follow previous BCSH guidance (Dooley & Worwood, 2000) and recommend monitoring Tsat values during maintenance. Firstly, it would seem unwise for a patient with high SF and iron loading at diagnosis not to restart venesection as Tsat starts to rise once again. Furthermore, as cellular iron uptake and the risk of NTBI increase as Tsat values rise and as GH arthropathy has recently been shown to develop more often in patients who fail to maintain Tsat <50% (Bardou-Jacquet et al, 2017), we would recommend maintenance venesection targets for both SF <50 μg/l and Tsat <50% in all fit patients. Patients frequently ask about dietary restriction of iron rich foods or the use of proton pump inhibitors (Hutchison et al, 2007) to reduce iron absorption. Such measures may offer some benefit, particularly for patients who do not tolerate or comply with venesections, but venesection remains the mainstay of maintenance treatment. During maintenance, venesect as required, preferably at a blood donation centre to maintain normal FBC, SF <50 μg/l and Tsat <50%. (1C) As these patients have a 100-fold increased risk of developing primary liver cancer, α-fetoprotein (AFP) levels and hepatic ultrasonography should be carried out every 6 months. HFE GH with cirrhosis; Treat as per recommendations 9 and 10 but not suitable for blood donation. Monitor AFP and hepatic ultrasonography every 6 months. (2C) Some countries encourage homozygotes to donate blood to the transfusion service either after initial venesections have restored normal iron stores or to prevent iron loading in asymptomatic homozygotes with normal SF values. This has now been accepted by UK Transfusion services (National Blood Service, 2013; www.transfusionguidelines.org.uk) although the responsibility to monitor SF and Tsat remains with the referring clinician. It would seem reasonable to suggest that such patients with GH be allowed to donate blood three or four times a year and so provide mutual benefit to both patient and society. The authors gratefully acknowledge the invaluable contribution made by Professor Mark Worwood in the production of this guideline. All authors contributed to writing the Guideline and approved the final draft." @default.
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