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Disease-modifying influences of coexistent G6PD-deficiency, Gilbert syndrome and deletional alpha thalassemia in hereditary spherocytosis: A report of three cases.
Clinica chimica acta; international journal of clinical chemistry - 1 Jul 2016
Jamwal Manu, Aggarwal Anu, Kumar Verinder, Sharma Prashant, Sachdeva Man Updesh Singh, Bansal Deepak, Malhotra Pankaj, Das Reena
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BACKGROUND: Hereditary spherocytosis (HS) is a common inherited hemolytic anemia characterized by heterogeneous clinical presentations with variable degrees of anemia, jaundice, splenomegaly and gallstones. Although the underlying genetic defects in red cell membrane proteins may explain many phenotypic variations, a proportion of variability may be due to other co-inherited factors like enzymopathies,...
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