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Descriptor English: Hemosiderosis
Descriptor Spanish: Hemosiderosis
Descriptor hemosiderosis
Scope note: Afecciones en las que hay un incremento generalizado de los depósitos de hierro en los tejidos del organismo, particularmente en el hígado y el SISTEMA FAGOCÍTICO MONONUCLEAR, sin daño tisular demostrable. El nombre hace referencia a la presencia de hierro, en forma de hemosiderina, que puede colorear los tejidos.
Descriptor Portuguese: Hemossiderose
Descriptor French: Hémosidérose
Entry term(s): Hemosideroses
Tree number(s): C18.452.565.500.500
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D006486
Scope note: Conditions in which there is a generalized increase in the iron stores of body tissues, particularly of liver and the MONONUCLEAR PHAGOCYTE SYSTEM, without demonstrable tissue damage. The name refers to the presence of stainable iron in the tissue in the form of hemosiderin.
Annotation: a form of tissue iron accumulation in total body iron overload
Allowable Qualifiers: BL blood
CF cerebrospinal fluid
CI chemically induced
CL classification
CN congenital
CO complications
DG diagnostic imaging
DH diet therapy
DI diagnosis
DT drug therapy
EC economics
EH ethnology
EM embryology
EN enzymology
EP epidemiology
ET etiology
GE genetics
HI history
IM immunology
ME metabolism
MI microbiology
MO mortality
NU nursing
PA pathology
PC prevention & control
PP physiopathology
PS parasitology
PX psychology
RH rehabilitation
RT radiotherapy
SU surgery
TH therapy
UR urine
VE veterinary
VI virology
DeCS ID: 6640
Unique ID: D006486
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Date Established: 1966/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2007/07/09
Hemosiderosis - Preferred
Concept UI M0010179
Scope note Conditions in which there is a generalized increase in the iron stores of body tissues, particularly of liver and the MONONUCLEAR PHAGOCYTE SYSTEM, without demonstrable tissue damage. The name refers to the presence of stainable iron in the tissue in the form of hemosiderin.
Preferred term Hemosiderosis
Entry term(s) Hemosideroses



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