{"id":180,"date":"2019-09-13T17:58:28","date_gmt":"2019-09-13T17:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ferriscan.com\/?page_id=180"},"modified":"2020-10-14T10:11:14","modified_gmt":"2020-10-14T10:11:14","slug":"ferriscan-for-patients","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ferriscan.com\/ferriscan-for-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"FerriScan for Patients"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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So what are the alternatives when a serum ferritin test result is high? Prior to FerriScan and FerriSmart, which are R2-MRI based techniques for the quantification of liver iron concentration, the gold standard (or accepted \u2018best practice\u2019) method for estimating the extent of iron loading in the liver was through liver needle biopsy, which is an invasive and unpleasant surgical procedure. The need for anesthesia, patient monitoring and recovery time also makes it expensive. In addition, when a biopsy is taken, the sample size is only a very small fraction (1\/5000) of the liver, which is subject to large sampling error for assessing liver iron levels, especially when the liver iron distribution is varied throughout the liver.<\/p>
There are also several MRI-based methodologies known as T2* or Signal Intensity Ratio (SIR) that may be used to provide a T2* value and attempt to equate this to a liver iron concentration.\u00a0 There is a fundamental limitation of the T2* methods that causes them to fail at high liver iron concentrations. This, combined with the variability in results between different scanners and MRI centres, reduces significantly the reliability of these methods.\u00a0 Additionally, these tests fail to offer the standardization and quality control systems offered by the FDA-cleared MRI-based products FerriScan and FerriSmart.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
Due to the quality-controlled, standardized nature of the test, a patient may have a FerriSmart at any FerriSmart-verified MRI centre, anywhere in the world, and receive accurate, reliable results.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
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