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Kidney & Iron overload
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Kidney & Iron overload
by y2ranga, Sep 25, 2009 04:46PM
Could an overload of iron for a person with alphatahlassemia cause severe pain in the kidney area?
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by Jordanna Joaquina, MS, CGC, Sep 28, 2009 02:01PM
, Sep 28, 2009 02:01PMTo: y2ranga
We recommend that you visit your physician if you are experiencing pain or discomfort.
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or not having a heart attack.. that is what they mean.. The doctors are extremely lazy, you must tell them I wat this CT .
This is the problem the primary care doctors and the ER doctors is that they want do minimal workup as possible then they give you a referral to the specialist. What I dont
like is that