Evaluating neonatal hyperbilirubinemia in late preterm Hispanic twins led to the diagnosis of hereditary spherocytosis in them, and in their sibling and in their mother

Journal of Perinatology

Volumn 31, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 625-627

  Sheffield, M J ^a,b   Christensen, R D ^a,b  

^a INTERMOUNTAIN HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^b McKay Dee Hospital Center   (United States)

Author keywords

anemia; hemolysis; hereditary spherocytosis; jaundice; MCHC; neonate

Indexed keywords

BILIRUBIN; HEMOGLOBIN;

AGE; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD SMEAR; CASE REPORT; ERYTHROCYTE FRAGILITY; ERYTHROCYTE VOLUME; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HEREDITARY SPHEROCYTOSIS; HISPANIC; HUMAN; IMMATURE RETICULOCYTE FRACTION; INFANT; JAUNDICE; MEAN CORPUSCULAR HEMOGLOBIN; MEAN CORPUSCULAR VOLUME; MEDICAL HISTORY; MOTHER; NEWBORN JAUNDICE; PEDIGREE ANALYSIS; PHOTOTHERAPY; PREMATURITY; RED CELL DISTRIBUTION WIDTH; RETICULOCYTE; RETICULOCYTE COUNT; RETICULOCYTOSIS; SIBLING; TWINS;

ADULT; DISEASES IN TWINS; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA, NEONATAL; INFANT, NEWBORN; NEONATAL SCREENING; PREMATURE BIRTH; SPHEROCYTOSIS, HEREDITARY;

EID: 80052365927     PISSN: 07438346     EISSN: 14765543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/jp.2010.212     Document Type: Article

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