Article
Curative Stem Cell Transplantation for Severe Hb H Disease Manifesting From Early Infancy: Phenotypic and Genotypic Analyses.
Hemoglobin - 1 Jan 2016
Surapolchai Pacharapan, Sirachainan Nongnuch, So Chi-Chiu, Hongeng Suradej, Pakakasama Samart, Anurathapan Usanarat, Chuansumrit Ampaiwan
Abstract excerpt
Most people with Hb H disease live normal lives; however, a minority of cases requires lifelong regular transfusions. An atypical form of nondeletional Hb H disease was reported in a Thai boy, characterized by severe persistent hemolytic anemia since the age of 2 months. Molecular diagnosis revealed the apparent compound heterozygosity for the Southeast Asian (- -(SEA)) and α2 polyadenylation (polyA) signal...
Topics
- Genotype
- Hemoglobin H
- Heterozygote
- Humans
- Infant
- Male
- Polyadenylation
- Sequence Deletion
- Stem Cell Transplantation
- Transplantation, Homologous
- alpha-Thalassemia
