IRON EXCESS SYNDROME IN SUBJECTS AFTER BA CTERIAL AND INFLAMMATORY CONDITIONS AND IN RELEVANT PATIENTS

In convalescents after and in patients with sepsis, purulent meningoen cephalitis, severe pneumonia the study of iron metabolism provided bio chemical criteria of iron excess: low serum transferrin against high t ransferrin iron, elevated ferritin. The risk of hyperferremia rises co nsiderably after blood or erythrocyte transfusions. The liver got affe cted in the presence of infectious toxicosis. The authors believe it r isky to practice uncontrolled administration of iron preparations in s ubjects recovering from severe bacterial and inflammatory diseases in view of threatening hemochromatosis.