Serum Ferritin Concentration in Haematologic, Infectious and Metabolic Disorders: A Critical Appraisal of Interpretive Thresholds, Mechanistic Assumptions and Clinical Utility
Serum ferritin is among the most frequently requested laboratory investigations in general medicine, yet its interpretation rests on assumptions that the accumulated evidence supports only in part. The analyte is used simultaneously as a surrogate for body iron stores, as an acute-phase reactant and as a prognostic mar...