B bulldog Senior Member 15+ Year Member 20+ Year Member Joined Sep 8, 2002 Messages 553 Reaction score 1 Sep 29, 2005 #1 any good reasoning/mnemonics behind the up/down arrows of various anemias in terms of iron, ferritin, tibc, etc? i keep forgetting what goes up/down. Members don't see this ad.
any good reasoning/mnemonics behind the up/down arrows of various anemias in terms of iron, ferritin, tibc, etc? i keep forgetting what goes up/down. Members don't see this ad.
L lsu1000 Member 10+ Year Member 15+ Year Member 20+ Year Member Joined Dec 5, 2000 Messages 70 Reaction score 0 Sep 30, 2005 #2 If I remember correctly, I remembered it like this(I think per Goljian) transferrin = TIBC ferritin = opposite TIBC/transferrin You check iron by checking ferritin, thus : iron(ferritin) up...TIBC down iron(ferritin) down, TIBC up transferrin up, TIBC up and so on I could be completely wrong on this, but I think this is correct most of the time. Upvote 0 Downvote
If I remember correctly, I remembered it like this(I think per Goljian) transferrin = TIBC ferritin = opposite TIBC/transferrin You check iron by checking ferritin, thus : iron(ferritin) up...TIBC down iron(ferritin) down, TIBC up transferrin up, TIBC up and so on I could be completely wrong on this, but I think this is correct most of the time.