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Vol. 42. Issue S1.
Pages 56 (October 2020)
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Serum & salivary ferritin levels in iron deficiency anemia is there is a difference?
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A. Gawaly*, G. Alghazaly
Tanta University, Tanta, Egypt
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Objective: Iron deficiency anemia (IDA) is one of the most important nutritional deficiencies in Egypt. The assessment of serum ferritin has been the gold standard method in the detection of this disease But, this involves the drawing of venous blood, which is invasive and is sometimes physically and psychologically traumatic to the patients, and sometimes it is difficult to withdraw blood from hidden veins. This study is done to estimate and correlate the serum ferritin levels & saliva of patients with IDA. Thus, assessing the effectiveness of saliva as an alternative non-invasive diagnostic tool. This study is done to estimate, compare and correlate the Ferritin level in serum & saliva of iron deficiency anemia patients, to determine whether saliva can be used as a predictive marker to monitor the iron levels in iron deficiency anemia.

Methodology: 60 patients with iron deficiency anemia and 20 healthy subjects as control were chosen for the study. Quantitative estimation of serum and salivary ferritin was performed by solid-phase ELISA, hemoglobin levels were also estimated to confirm the anemic status of the patient.

Results: Increased salivary ferritin level in patients with iron deficiency anemia and negative significant correlation between the salivary ferritin, salivary/serum ferritin ratio, and serum hemoglobin and a significant negative correlation between serum and salivary ferritin.

Conclusion: Salivary ferritin is a noninvasive method for the detection of IDA with a good predictive impact.

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Hematology, Transfusion and Cell Therapy
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