Albertine Donker

Chapter 1 General Introduction and Outline of Thesis	9
Chapter 2 The Critical Roles of Iron during the Journey from Fetus to Adult: a Narrative Review	49
Chapter 3 Practice Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Microcytic Anemias due to Genetic Disorders of Iron Metabolism or Heme Synthesis	91
Chapter 4 Iron Refractory Iron Deficiency Anemia: a Heterogeneous Disease that is not always Iron Refractory	139
Chapter 5 Microcytic Anemia with Low Transferrin Saturation, Increased Serum Hepcidin and Non-synonymous TMPRSS6 Variants: not always Iron Refractory Iron Deficiency Anemia	197
Chapter 6 X-linked Sideroblastic Anemia due to ALAS2 Mutations in the Netherlands: a Disease in Disguise	203
Chapter 7 Standardized Serum Hepcidin Values in Dutch Children: Set Point relative to Body Iron changes during Childhood	227
Chapter 8 Transferrin Saturation/Hepcidin Ratio discriminates TMPRSS6-related Iron Refractory Iron Deficiency Anemia from Patients with Multicausal Iron Deficiency Anemia with High Sensitivity and Specificity	275
Chapter 9 General Discussion	301
Chapter 10 Summary	333
List of Co-authors and Affiliations	345
List of Abbreviations	351
About the Author	355
List of Publications	357
PhD Portfolio	361
Research Data Management	363
For Dutch Dummies	365

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