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Fetal hydrops in Sardinia: implications for genetic counselling.
Clinical genetics - 1 Nov 1990
Galanello R, Sanna M A, Maccioni L, Gasperini D, Melis M A, Rosatelli C, Monni G, Cao A
Abstract excerpt
This paper describes the first case of Hb Bart's hydrops fetalis syndrome in the Sardinian population. Despite the high frequency of a-thalassemia, fetal hydrops is extraordinarily rare in the Sardinian population because a-thalassemia is more usually the result of the single a-thalassemia globin gene deletion and is very rarely produced by the deletion of two a-globin genes. The fetus, the product of a...
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