Article
[Prevalence and genetic profile of alpha-thalassemia in the newborn in Ivory Coast].
Medecine tropicale : revue du Corps de sante colonial - 1 Jan 2000
Sangare A, Sanogo I, Meite M, Ambofo Y, Abesopie V, Segbena A
Abstract excerpt
The authors report 525 cases of alpha-thalassemia tracked from samples of cord blood proceeded from 12,709 new-borns. With a frequency of 4.13% alpha-thalassemia was frequently in studied population. The lack of symptomatical shapes (Hemoglobin H disease and hydrops foetalis) agree the present th...
Topics
- Blood Protein Electrophoresis
- Cote d'Ivoire
- Ethnicity
- Female
- Fetal Blood
- Hemoglobins
- Hospitals, University
- Humans
- Infant, Newborn
- Male
- Phenotype
- Prevalence
