Haemochromatosis: evaluating the effectiveness of a novel patient self-management approach to venesection as blood donation.

CONCLUSION: The new model of self management was effective for the majority of patients who were discharged from the therapeutic venesection clinic. Longer follow up is required to assess the overall pattern of ferritin control in patients who self manage their haemochromatosis by regular blood donation. PMID: 28617785 [PubMed - in process]
Source: New Zealand Medical Journal - Category: General Medicine Tags: N Z Med J Source Type: research