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n. - Abnormal deposit of a yellowish brown granular pigment

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  • Excessive therapy with parenteral iron can lead to excess storage of iron with the possibility of iatrogenic hemosiderosis.
  • If you're an older man, you should not have a supplement with iron because iron accumulates in the heart and can lead to a condition called hemosiderosis.
  • Though his findings and those of his equally courageous colleague, Ruth Etzel, became the subject of considerable debate, the EPA's Children's Health Initiative on Toxic Mold...
  • (transfusional hemosiderosis) in patients 2 years of age and older.
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