A person's hemoglobin is important in the physician's consideration of iron reduction therapy. A physician can provide therapeutic phlebotomy if the patient's hemoglobin level is sufficient to sustain blood removal. The physician can also recommend the patient to routinely donate blood. When a patient's hemoglobin is not sufficient for phlebotomy. Iron reduction will likely require the removal of iron using specific drugs (iron-chelation). The physician may use a combination of these therapies in some situations.
African iron overload
Iron poisoning
Thiamine responsive megaloblastic anemia syndrome
Zinc toxicity
Refractory anemia with ring sideroblasts
Pseudoporphyria
Pernicious anemia
Hereditary haemochromatosis