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[Acute anaemia in a Vietnamese patient with alpha-thalassaemia and a parvovirus infection].
Nederlands tijdschrift voor geneeskunde - 15 Jul 2006
Slomp J, Bosschaart A, Dousma M, van Zwieten R, Giordano P C, van den Bergh F A J T M
Abstract excerpt
A 14-year-old girl of Vietnamese descent with an unremarkable medical history presented with haemodynamic shock due to severe anaemia. This was caused by an aplastic crisis resulting from the combined effects of a Parvovirus infection and HbH disease. The HbH disease was a result of compound heterozygosity for the South East Asia (SEA) deletion and the Constant Spring mutation in the genes coding for alpha-globin...
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