A rare case of coinheritance of Hemoglobin H disease and sickle cell trait combined with severe iron deficiency

Hematology Reports

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 98-100

  Medinger, Michael ^a   Saller, Elisabeth ^b   Harteveld, Cornelis L ^c   Lehmann, Thomas ^a   Graf, Lukas ^a   Rovo, Alicia ^a   Buser, Andreas ^a   Passweg, Jakob ^a   Tichelli, André ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b IMD Institute for Medical and Molecular Diagnostics Ltd   (Switzerland)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Alpha Thalassemia; HbH disease; Iron deficiency; Sickle cell trait

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885934985     PISSN: 20388322     EISSN: 20388330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4081/hr.2011.e30     Document Type: Article

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