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"Minor" hemoglobinopathies: a risk factor for asthma.
European annals of allergy and clinical immunology - 1 May 2005
Palma-Carlos A G, Palma-Carlos M Laura, Costa Ana Célia
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Thalassemia, sickle cell disease and other hemoglobinopathies are not rare in Portugal and European Mediterranean area. Homozygotic patients present major hematological disease but heterozygotic minor assymptomatic forms are frequent, mainly thalassemia minor and sickle cell trait. In these cases mycrocytosis with decrease or red cell volume and mean corpuscular volume or abnormal rigid erythrocytes...
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