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Background: High levels of Serum ferritin are not usual in patients without iron overload. Such condition can be seen in patients with cancer, liver disease or infections, and also can be one of the presentations of a syndrome. In all these condition iron overload cannot be detected and high levels of ferritin dose not mean the lack of iron depletion or iron defiiency anemia and are exclusively related to inflammation.
Case Report: In this article, a patient is introduced without any history of multiple transfusion and iron overload, with high levels serum ferritin during the process of an infection disease, while she had a moderate iron deficiency anemia.
Conclusion: According to underlying disease and serum ferritin levels in the patient and review of related articles seems that serum ferritin like the CBC, CRP and ESR can act as acute phase reactant so it increase at severity phase of infection and decreased with treatment of it.
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