Figure 7. Micrographs from hereditary hemochromatosis (HH) and hyperferritinemia (HF) individuals.

A) RBC from HH individual with high SF (508 µg/L⁻¹) (C282Y/C282Y); B) RBC from HH individual with low SF (15 µg/L⁻¹) due to regular phlebotomy (C282Y/wild type) C) Whole blood smear, showing elongated RBC from a HF individual with high SF (303 µg/L⁻¹); D) Whole blood smear, from HH with added thrombin (C282Y/wild type) (219 µg/L⁻¹); E) Platelet rich plasma smear from HH with added thrombin (C282Y/H63D) (1166 µg/L⁻¹); F) Platelet rich plasma smear from HF individual with added thrombin (1230 µg/L⁻¹); G) Light microscopy smear from a H63D/wild type individual (179 µg/L⁻¹) - The cell arrowed illustrates the means by which we determined the axial ratios; H) Light microscopy smear from a HF individual with high iron levels (506 µg/L⁻¹). All SEM micrographs scales  = 1 µm. Light microscopy micrographs scales  = 10 µm.