Pyruvate Kinase Deficiency: Current Challenges and Future Prospects

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Pyruvate kinase deficiency (PKD) is a rare autosomal recessive disease marked by chronic hemolytic anemia of various severity and frequent complications including gallstones, splenomegaly, iron overload, and others. Disease phenotype is highly heterogeneous and changes over time with children, adolescents and adult patients displaying different transfusion requirement and rates of complications. The diagnosis...

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