Diagnostic pitfalls of less well recognized HbH disease.

Abstract excerpt

HbH disease had been introduced as a mild anemia disease. It recently has become the most challenging hemoglobinopathy due to the increasingly described genotype patterns and very variable phenotypic presentations in different ethnics. Phenotypic severity of HbH syndrome is not simply related to the degree of α-globin deficiency and being influenced by several environmental and/or genetic factors. Hence, more...

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• alpha-Globins
• alpha-Thalassemia
• beta-Thalassemia
• Combined Modality Therapy
• Disease Management
• Hemoglobin H