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Student's knowledge and attitude toward hemoglobinopathies premarital screening

Hail Journal of Health Sciences, 2022
Background: Hemoglobinopathies are common in Saudi Arabia. The highest prevalence of thalassemia and sickle cell disease (SCD) was observed in the Eastern and Jazan regions.
Wedad Alhazmi, Sarah Salih, Anas E Ahmed
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Screening for thalassemia and other hemoglobinopathies in a tertiary care hospital of West Bengal: Implications for population screening

Indian Journal of Public Health, 2012
Hemoglobinopathies are common genetic disorders of hemoglobin, which can be prevented by population screening and offering genetic counseling. In absence of population-based screening for hemoglobinopathies, the hospital-based diagnosis register provide ...
Bhawna Bhutoria Jain, Rabindra Nath Roy, Sulekha Ghosh, Tapan Ghosh, Uma Banerjee, Subodh Kumar Bhattacharya   +5 more
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Assessment of Sleep Disorders in Children with Transfusion-Dependent Hemoglobinopathies [PDF]

Annals of Child Neurology, 2023
Purpose The aim of this study was to compare sleep problems between children with transfusion-dependent hemoglobinopathies and healthy controls. Methods This study was a case-control survey of children with transfusion-dependent hemoglobinopathies.
Ahmed Masoud Ali, Ahmad Darwish Mohamed, Mona Ahmed Elbilsha   +2 more
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Comparative Study of Red Blood Cell Parameters in Different Hemoglobinopathies Diagnosed by HPLC at a Tertiary Care Hospital, Rajkot, Gujarat

Medical Journal of Dr. D.Y. Patil Vidyapeeth
Background: Inherited disorders of hemoglobin (hemoglobinopathies) are the most common genetic disorders in the world with 7% prevalence. Thalassemia and sickle cell anemia are the most prevalent hemoglobinopathies in India.
Khushbu K. Tilva, Deepa Jethwani, Payal Shah, Gauravi A. Dhruva   +3 more
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Significance of the mathematically calculated red cell indices in patients with qualitative and quantitative hemoglobinopathies

The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine, 2022
Background Hemoglobinopathies represent a set of inherited red blood cell (RBCs) disorders, characterized by abnormal hemoglobin molecule. They include qualitative and quantitative hemoglobinopathies, with a structurally abnormal globin chain in the ...
Heba A. Ahmed, Safaa A. A. Khaled, Eman M. Fahmy, Nesreen A. Mohammed, Hamdy F. F. Mahmoud   +4 more
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Type and frequency of hemoglobinopathies, diagnosed in the area of Karachi, in Pakistan

Cogent Medicine, 2016
Hemoglobinopathies are one of the major problems in Pakistan. A retrospective analysis of blood samples of 2731 patients from 2010 to 2014 was done at National Institute of Blood Disease & Bone Marrow Transplantation for the workup of anemia or other ...
Shaista Shabbir, Muhammad Nadeem, Abdul Sattar, Iffat Ara, Saqib Ansari, Tassneem Farzana, Mehwish Taj, Munira Borhany, Saima Manzir, Uzma Zaidi, Jawad Hassan, Arshi Naz, Tahir Shamsi   +12 more
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GENE THERAPY IN THALASSEMIA AND HEMOGLOBINOPATHIES

Mediterranean Journal of Hematology and Infectious Diseases, 2009
Sickle cell disease (SCD) and ß-thalassemia represent the most common hemoglobinopathies caused, respectively, by the alteration of structural features or deficient production of the ß-chain of the Hb molecule.
Laura Breda, Roberto Gambari, Stefano Rivella   +2 more
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Is high pressure liquid chromatography an effective screening tool for characterization of molecular defects in hemoglobinopathies?

Indian Journal of Pathology and Microbiology, 2013
Introduction: Hemoglobinopathies constitute entities that are generated by either abnormal hemoglobin or thalassemias. high pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC) is one of the best methods for screening and detection of various hemoglobinopathies but it ...
Nikhil Moorchung, Joseph Phillip, Ravi Shankar Sarkar, Rupesh Prasad, Vibha Dutta   +4 more
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COVID-19 infection and beta thalassemia; a single center experience in Iran [PDF]

Journal of Preventive Epidemiology, 2021
Introduction: COVID-19 infection is a contagious acute respiratory syndrome, leading to a high mortality rate; it is also a systemic disease, and all people are at risk of being infected, including hemoglobinopathies patients.
Roya Salehi Kahyesh, Arash Alghasi, Bijan Keikhaei Dehdezi, Adeleh Khazami, Marzeieh Abbasi Nasab   +4 more
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Epidemiological surveillance of SARSCov2 in β-Thalassemia Patients in the last two years: reinfection rate, insights and future challenges

Mediterranean Journal of Hematology and Infectious Diseases, 2023
Background: Although the association between comorbidities and the severity of COVID-19 infection has been extensively discussed, data on COVID-19 and hemoglobinopathies are still limited.
Lorenza Torti, Francesco Sorrentino, Laura Maffei, Paolo De Fabritiis, Elisabetta Abruzzese   +4 more
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