In the Clinic: Hemochromatosis

An In the Clinic article published by Annals of Internal Medicine on Feb. 11 provided an overview of hemochromatosis, an inheritable condition that mainly affects White populations of European descent. The article describes potential clinical manifestations of the disease, including arthropathy, diabetes mellitus, cirrhosis, hypogonadotropic hypogonadism, and cardiomyopathy, and notes that primary care and hospital medicine physicians play an essential role in diagnosing it by hematologic testing. The article highlights how early diagnosis and therapeutic phlebotomy improve clinical outcomes.

The editors of Annals develop In the Clinic with the assistance of additional physician writers, ACP MKSAP, and other resources of ACP.