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(Clinical Chemistry. 1997;43:1099-1100.)
© 1997 American Association for Clinical Chemistry, Inc.

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Hair Iron Content: Possible Marker to Complement Monitoring Therapy of Iron Deficiency in Patients with Chronic Inflammatory Bowel Disease?

Ernest Beutler

The Scripps Research Institute, Dept. of Mol. and Experimental Med., 10550 N. Torrey Pines Rd., La Jolla, CA 92037


To the Editor:

Bissé et al. (1) suggest that measurement of the concentration of iron in hair might prove useful in assessing iron status. They state: "To our knowledge, however, no attempt has been made to include the measurement of hair iron in an evaluation of body iron."

Older references are sometimes difficult to locate, but may be very important. In 1945 Flesch and Rothman found that trichosiderin is a red hair pigment that contains iron (2). This finding suggests to some of us who were interested in iron metabolism that the use of hair iron concentrations would not be a satisfactory indicator of patient iron status. However, several investigators did investigate the iron content of hair as an index of iron status. In 1956, Green and Duffield (3) measured the iron content of the hair of patients with pulmonary tuberculosis, chronic rheumatoid arthritis, diabetes, pernicious anemia, hemochromatosis, and, notably, 53 patients with iron deficiency. In their investigations they took into account the color of the hair of their . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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Emmanuel Bisséa and Heinrich Wieland

Dept. of Clin. Chem., University Hosp., Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
a Address correspondence to this author at: Klin. der Albert-Ludwigs-Univ., Abteilung Klin. Chem., Hugstetter Str. 55, D-79016 Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany.


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Ernest Beutler

a Address correspondence to this author at: Klin. der Albert-Ludwigs-Univ., Abteilung Klin. Chem., Hugstetter Str. 55, D-79016 Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany.


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