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Homozygosity for the Mediterranean a-thalassemic deletion (hemoglobin Barts hydrops fetalis).
Annals of Saudi medicine - 1 Jan 2000
Al-Allawi Nasir A S, Shamdeen Maida Y, Rasheed Najeeb S
Abstract excerpt
Hemoglobin Barts hydrops fetalis syndrome is the most severe and generally fatal clinical phenotype of alpha-thalassemia. We diagnosed a fetus at 23-weeks gestation with having hydrops fetalis, by ultrasound. At 32 weeks, intrauterine death was detected. Molecular studies revealed that the fetus had the hemoglobin Barts hydrops fetalis syndrome due to homozygosity for the Mediterranean alpha-thalassemia deletion....
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