Juvenile Hemochromatosis & non-HFE related iron overload in youths
Internet URL
http://www.irondisorders.org/Disorders/JHemochromatosis.asp 
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Description
Hemochromatosis is a genetic metabolic disorder where a person absorbs too much iron and can result in dangerously high accumulation of iron in vital organs such as liver, heart, joints and brain which is a condition of iron overload. When iron overload presents in someone younger than the age of thirty, it is called Juvenile hemochromatosis (JH).