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1. 1. The Physician and Sportsmedicine: News Briefs

   www.physsportsmed.com/issues/2 - [Cached]

   Published on: 4/24/2003   Last Visited: 4/24/2003

   We contacted Raymond J. Browne, MD, an internist in private practice in Birmingham, Alabama, to help clarify answers to some questions. Browne is an internal medicine consultant with Alabama Sports Medicine and Orthopedic Center, also in Birmingham.
   
   Who Should Be Screened?
   
   A sampling of responses to an AMSSM e-mail discussion group suggests that some sports medicine physicians are routinely ordering complete blood counts and ferritin levels for most female athletes and male endurance athletes.
   
   Browne agrees, adding that male cross-country athletes should routinely be screened because they have an increased incidence of march hemoglobinuria, exertional hematuria, and gastrointestinal blood loss.
   ...
   Ferritin testing is the gold standard, Browne says.
   ...
   Browne noted that the generally accepted normal range for women is 4 to 161 ng/mL and for men is 16 to 216 ng/mL.

2. 2. www.physsportsmed.com

   www.physsportsmed.com/issues/2 - [Cached]

   Published on: 9/1/2002   Last Visited: 10/11/2007

   We contacted Raymond J. Browne, MD, an internist in private practice in Birmingham, Alabama, to help clarify answers to some questions. Browne is an internal medicine consultant with Alabama Sports Medicine and Orthopedic Center, also in Birmingham.
   
   Who Should Be Screened?
   
   A sampling of responses to an AMSSM e-mail discussion group suggests that some sports medicine physicians are routinely ordering complete blood counts and ferritin levels for most female athletes and male endurance athletes.
   
   Browne agrees, adding that male cross-country athletes should routinely be screened because they have an increased incidence of march hemoglobinuria, exertional hematuria, and gastrointestinal blood loss.
   ...
   Ferritin testing is the gold standard, Browne says.
   ...
   Browne noted that the generally accepted normal range for women is 4 to 161 ng/mL and for men is 16 to 216 ng/mL.

3. 3. The Physician and Sportsmedicine: September 1996 Table of Contents

   www.physsportsmed.comwww.physs - [Cached]

   Published on: 9/1/1996   Last Visited: 10/18/2007

   Raymond J. Browne, MD, MPH