title: Brucellosis with very high ferritin levels: report of five cases.
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.
authors.affiliation: Pediatric Clinic, Mustafa Kemal University, Turkey. vefikarica@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Vefik
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Arica
authors.forename: İ
authors.initials: İ
authors.lastname: Şilfeler
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Arica
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tutanç
authors.forename: V K
authors.initials: VK
authors.lastname: Motor
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: İnci
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000372:Agglutination Tests; D002002:Brucella; D002006:Brucellosis / Q000097:blood* / Q000175:diagnosis; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D005293:Ferritins / Q000097:blood*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male
chemical_list: D005293:Ferritins