The ferroportin disease: pathogenesis, diagnosis and treatment.

The ferroportin disease: pathogenesis, diagnosis and treatment. Haematologica. 2017 Nov 03;: Authors: Pietrangelo A Abstract The Ferroportin Disease is an autosomal dominant hereditary iron loading disorder associated with heterozygote mutations of the ferroportin-1 (FPN) gene. It represents one of commonest cause of genetic hyperferritinemia, regardless of ethnicity. FPN1 transfers iron from the intestine, macrophages and placenta into the bloodstream. In the ferroportin disease, loss-of-function mutations of FPN1 limit but do not impair iron-export in enterocytes, but severely affects iron-transfer in macrophages. This leads to progressive and preferential iron trapping in tissue macrophages, reduced iron release to serum transferrin (i.e. inappropriately low transferrin saturation and tendency to anemia at menarche or after intense bloodletting. The hallmark of the ferroportin disease is marked iron accumulation in hepatic Kupffer cells. Numerous FD-associated mutations have been reported worldwide, with a few occurring in different populations and more commonly reported (e.g. Val192del, A77D and G80S). FPN1 polymorphisms also represent the gene variants most commonly responsible for hyperferritinemia in Africans. Differential diagnosis includes mainly hereditary hemochromatosis, the syndrome commonly due to either HFE or TfR2, HJV, HAMP and, in rare instances, FPN1 itself. Here, differently from the ferroportin disease, hyperferr...
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