Siderosis

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Classification according to ICD-10
J63.4 Siderosis
ICD-10 online (WHO version 2019)

As sideroses to diseases in which denotes salts of iron in the organism to be deposited ( iron storage diseases ). One subdivides primary (congenital) and secondary (acquired) sideroses. The iron content of the body in sideroses can increase up to ten times the normal value.

The most important primary siderosis is classic (adult) autosomal recessive hemochromatosis .

Secondary sideroses occur after chronic intake of excessive amounts of iron, for example

  • in the case of chronic overdose of oral iron supplements
  • after years of transfusion treatment for hemolytic anemia
  • in patients with alcohol-toxic liver damage.
  • as pneumoconiosis due to long-term inhalation of iron particles (for example in welding workers and workers in the steel industry)

Individual evidence

  1. Specialist information from Kendural, a drug for the treatment of iron deficiency states at oddb.org
  2. H. Symanski: Pneumoconiosis in iron ore mining: Siderosis or silicosis ?: Using 3 autopsy findings . In: Archive for industrial pathology and industrial hygiene . tape 13 , no. 7 , 1955, pp. 702-720 , doi : 10.1007 / BF00312846 .
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