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Haemoglobin Bonn in a Chinese family as a cause of spurious hypoxaemia measured by pulse oximetry.
Journal of clinical pathology - 1 Oct 2010
So Chi-Chiu, Chan Amy Y, Chow Eudora Y, Lin Shek-Ying, Yip Sze-Fai, Szeto Siu-Cheung, Chan Li-Chong
Abstract excerpt
Haemoglobin (Hb) Bonn is a newly described benign Hb variant that causes falsely depressed oxygen saturation as measured by pulse oximetry. It was found to be associated with mild haemolysis. Since its first report in a German family, no further cases have been documented in the literature. We report the first Chinese family with this Hb variant and confirm its unusual clinical presentation. No evidence of...
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