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[HbH disease--a rare differential diagnosis in a patient with anemia and abdominal pain].
Medizinische Klinik (Munich, Germany : 1983) - 15 Jun 2003
Fabry Ursula, Kohne Elisabeth, Galm Oliver, Osieka Rainhardt
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CASE REPORT: A 45-year-old Vietnamese male was admitted to hospital with severe hypochromic anemia and acute abdominal pain. The peripheral blood smear showed extreme anisocytosis and poikilocytosis as well as teardrops and target cells. Hemoglobin electrophoresis and brilliant cresyl blue staining revealed hemoglobin H (HbH) disease with an infection-associated hemolytic crisis. CONCLUSION: In the diagnostic...
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