Iron tests

Medical diagnostics
Purpose| evaluate iron level

Iron tests are groups of clinical chemistry laboratory blood tests that are used to evaluate body iron stores or the iron level in blood serum.

Other terms used for the same tests are iron panel, iron profile, iron indices, iron status or iron studies.

## Contents

* 1 Tests
* 2 Related tests
* 3 Diagnosis
* 4 See also
* 5 References

## Tests

* Serum iron
* Ferritin
* Transferrin
* Total iron-binding capacity (TIBC)
* Transferrin saturation (Iron saturation of transferrin)
* Unsaturated iron binding capacity (UIBC)
* Transferrin receptor (TfR)

## Related tests

* Complete blood count (CBC), especially:
* Hemoglobin, EVF or total red blood cells (RBC count)
* Mean corpuscular volume (MCV)
* Mean corpuscular hemoglobin (MCH) or MCHC

## Diagnosis

IRON PANEL  | Serum iron | Transferrin and TIBC  | Transferrin saturation | Ferritin | Transferrin receptor  | Related tests

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Hb  | MCV
Iron deficiency anemia  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Iron overload
(hemochromatosis)  |  |  |  |  | *  | Normal  |
Anemia of chronic disease |  |  |  | *  | *  |  |
Porphyria cutanea tarda (PCT)  |  |  |  |  | Normal  |  |
Thalassemia |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Sideroblastic anemia  |  |  |  |  | *  |  |
Megaloblastic anemia  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Hemolytic anemia  | *  | *  | *  | *  |  |  |
Pregnancy or use of
hormonal contraception | Normal  |  |  |  |  |  |

* = or normal.

## See also

* Reference ranges for blood tests, for reference ranges for tests above

## References

* Iron Level Blood Test - Personal Home Medical Tests - testnord.co.uk

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