Consensus guidelines for diagnosis and management of anemia in epidermolysis bullosa

Table 4 Interpretation of Iron studies [28]

	Iron deficiency anemia	Anemia of chronic disease	Iron overload
Hb	Reduced	Reduced	Normal
MCV	Low	Low or low-normal	Normal
Serum iron	Decreased	Decreased	Increased
Transferrin or TIBC	Increased	Decreased	Decreased
Transferrin saturation	Decreased	Normal/decreased	Increased
Soluble transferrin receptor	Increased	Normal	Decreased
Ferritin	Usually < 15	> 200 usually increased	Increased
CRP	Normal	Increased	Normal

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