Swiss medical weekly
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Swiss medical weekly · Jan 1982
[Malignant tumors in bearers of kidney grafts in immunosuppressive therapy].
Out of 420 kidney transplant recipients at the University Hospital, Zurich, operated on between 1964 and 1978, 23 developed one or more malignant tumors. This corresponds to 5.8% of all patients. They included 8 cases of malignant lymphoma (non-Hodgkin), one of subacute myeloic leukemia, one of acute lymphatic leukemia, 6 skin cancers and 9 cancers of internal organs. ⋯ Recurrences were not noted. The visceral carcinomas (2 breast cancers, 1 carcinoma respectively of the pancreas, the rectum, the liver, the kidneys, the renal pelvis, and the urinary bladder, and one seminoma) were treated by generally accepted surgical principles as far as treatment of the patients was possible. The breast cancer and seminoma patients have survived thus far without recurrences or metastases.
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Swiss medical weekly · Jan 1982
[The value of serum ferritin, serum iron and iron-binding capacity in the differential diagnosis of microcytic hypochromic anemia].
Ferritin, iron, total iron binding capacity and transferrin saturation were measured in the serum of 247 patients with microcytic hypochromic anemia. Differentiation into various categories of microcytic hypochromic anemia was based on clinical criteria and on the response to iron treatment. ⋯ Analysis of the iron parameters revealed the reliability of both serum ferritin and transferrin saturation in distinguishing between the various forms of anemia. However, measurement of serum ferritin is slightly more reliable and much less expensive than determination of transferrin saturation.