The Confident Clinician Podcast

Blood tests for Hair Loss. Screening with Ferritin.


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This past month we covered hair loss inside the Confident Clincian Club.    If you are not on our email list. You can sign up for the wait list for future membership opportunities here: https://confidentclinicianclub.com/   This podcast covered the importance of universal screening for iron deficiency (not iron deficiency anemia) in patients with hair loss, and how a ferritin reading might influence what diagnosis we assign a patient with presenting with hair loss.   Cheng, T. et al. The Diagnostic Value of Serum Ferritin for Telogen Effluvium: A Cross-Sectional Comparative Study. Clin Cosmet Investigational Dermatology 14, 137–141 (2021).   Salinas, M., Leiva-Salinas, M., Flores, E., López-Garrigós, M. & Leiva-Salinas, C. Alopecia and Iron Deficiency: An Interventional Pilot Study in Primary Care to Improve the Request of Ferritin. Adv Hematology 2020, 7341018 (2020).
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The Confident Clinician PodcastBy Dr. Jordan Robertson ND