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Diagnosis of patients with hemoglobinopathies including α-thalassemia in a laboratory with limited resources

Iraqi Journal of Hematology, 2020
BACKGROUND: Diagnosis of α-thalassemia can be challenging as it is clinically insignificant in the majority of patients who are presented with one or two α-gene deletion, it cannot be always suspected from the red cell indices, and the confirmatory tests
Abbas Hashim Abdulsalam, Subh Salim Al-Mudallal, Nidhal Karim Al-Rahal   +2 more
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Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice of Sickle Cell Disease Among Sickle Cell Disease Patients in Sudurpashchim Province of Nepal: A Cross‐Sectional Study [PDF]

Health Science Reports
Background Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a genetic hemoglobinopathy which is responsible for about 3.5% of deaths in
Gauri Datt Joshi, Sher Bahadur Kamar, Pradip Mishra, Hemraj Pandey, Sandesh Rimal, Yogendra Shah, Ravi Mohan Tiwari, Ananda Kumar Mandal, Ankit Kumar Singh, Shyam Prakash Dumre, Kishor Pandey, Eak Dev Khanal, Basu Dev Pandey, Bishnu Prasad Marasini, Pramod Joshi   +14 more
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A rare case of renal medullary carcinoma without sickle cell hemoglobinopathy in a Japanese woman. [PDF]

Urol Case Rep
Ishizaki M, Hasumi M, Muramatsu K, Iijima M, Shimizu N.   +4 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Distribution of Hemoglobinopathy Disorders in Al-Kharj Province Based on Data from the Premarital Screening and Genetic Counseling Program [PDF]

Medicina (Kaunas)
Noura Al‐Dayan
europepmc   +3 more sources

An overview of complications associated with deferoxamine therapy in thalassemia [PDF]

Journal of Nephropharmacology, 2021
Thalassemic syndromes are the most common genetic diseases in the world that are related to blood transfusion and iron overload in the body. In ß-thalassemia major multiple blood transfusions due to ineffective erythropoiesis lead to iron excess in the ...
Bijan Keikhaei, Neda Farmani-Anooshe, Mohammad Bahadoram, Mohammad-Reza Mahmoudian-Sani, Kosar Alikhani, Ammar Helalinasab   +5 more
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COVID-19 and Hemoglobinopathies: A Systematic Review of Clinical Presentations, Investigations, and Outcomes

Frontiers in Medicine, 2021
This systematic review aimed to provide an overview of the clinical profile and outcome of COVID-19 infection in patients with hemoglobinopathy. The rate of COVID-19 mortality and its predictors were also identified.
Jun Xin Lee, Wei Keong Chieng, Sie Chong Doris Lau, Chai Eng Tan   +3 more
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A National Registry of Thalassemia in Turkey: Demographic and Disease Characteristics of Patients, Achievements, and Challenges in Prevention

Turkish Journal of Hematology, 2018
Objective: The Turkish Society of Pediatric Hematology set up a National Hemoglobinopathy Registry to demonstrate the demographic and disease characteristics of patients and assess the efficacy of a hemoglobinopathy control program (HCP) over 10 years in
Yeşim Aydınok, Yeşim Oymak, Berna Atabay, Gönül Aydoğan, Akif Yeşilipek, Selma Ünal, Yurdanur Kılınç, Banu Oflaz, Mehmet Akın, Canan Vergin, Melike Sezgin Evrim, Ümran Çalışkan, Şule Ünal, Ali Bay, Elif Kazancı, Talia İleri, Didem Atay, Türkan Patıroğlu, Selda Kahraman, Murat Söker, Mediha Akcan, Aydan Akdeniz, Mustafa Büyükavcı, Güçhan Alanoğlu, Özcan Bör, Nur Soyer, Nihal Özdemir Karadaş, Ezgi Uysalol, Meral Türker, Arzu Akçay, Süheyla Ocak, Adalet Meral Güneş, Hüseyin Tokgöz, Elif Ünal, Naci Tiftik, Zeynep Karakaş   +35 more
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Ferritin thresholds for cardiac and liver hemosiderosis in β-thalassemia patients: a diagnostic accuracy study

Scientific Reports, 2022
Ferritin is frequently used to screen some dire consequences of iron overload in β-thalassemia patients. The study aimed to define the best cutoff point of ferritin to screen for cardiac and liver hemosiderosis in these cases.
Hadi Darvishi-Khezri, Aily Aliasgharian, Mohammad Naderisorki, Mehrnoush Kosaryan, Mobin Ghazaiean, Hanie Fallah, Mohammad Zahedi, Hossein Karami   +7 more
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Time to Do Something for Vitamin D Deficiency; A Review

Journal of Pediatrics Review, 2015
Context: Vitamin D deficiency is a common nutritional disorder in Iran. Vitamin D is an essential health factor from birth onward. This study was conducted to summarize epidemiologic researches regarding vitamin D deficiency in different parts of the ...
Mehrnoush Kosaryan, Mandana Zafari , Aili Aliasgharian, Masomeh Mosawi   +3 more
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Early Screening of Hemoglobinopathy in Indonesia Using Erythrocyte Indices

Indonesian Biomedical Journal, 2017
BACKGROUND: The mutation spectrums of hemoglobinopathy are different among populations that yield a different result of erythrocyte indices. Calculation of erythrocyte indices with some formula has been reported to differentiate between hemoglobinopathy ...
Yenny Surjawan, Hwee Lian Tan, Rahajuningsih Dharma Setiabudy, Wiwik Rositawati   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source