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- Brucellosis is a zoonotic disease caused by Brucella bacteria, typically affecting humans but is not usually fatal.
- Five diagnosed cases in our study showed extremely high ferritin levels, ranging from 435 to 1200 ng/ml, in patients aged 8 to 16 years.
- After treatment, patients reported a decrease in symptoms and their ferritin levels returned to normal, indicating that high ferritin can occur in brucellosis without the presence of conditions like hemochromatosis or Still's disease.
Article Abstract
Brucellosis is a zoonotic disease caused by a kind of Brucella bacteria, which commonly appears in humans and rarely causes mortality. In our study, five cases, who were diagnosed by evaluation of clinical findings and serological tests, they also had very high ferritin levels, were reported. Ages of the patients were 16, 12, 10, 16 and 8 years, respectively. Serum ferritin levels were 1200, 985, 886, 748 and 435 ng/ml, respectively. We observed that complaints of the patients reduced after the treatment and ferritin levels returned to its normal range. In the situations of extremely evaluated serum ferritin which is an acute-phase reactant, its levels are able to raise in brucellosis, without existing hemochromatosis and Still's disease.
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