TY - JOUR
T1 - Combined hereditary spherocytosis and β-thalassemia trait
T2 - A rare co-existence
AU - Sridevi, Hanaganahalli Basavaiah
AU - Sreeram, Saraswathy
AU - Hegde, Anupama
AU - Balanthimogru, Prashantha
AU - Chakraborti, Shrijeet
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2018/1/1
Y1 - 2018/1/1
N2 - Haemoglobinopathies are the commonest haemolytic disorders, prevalent in India and form a major bulk of patients in most of the haematology outpatient clinics. β-thalassaemia is the commonest inherited haemolytic anaemia and presence of β-Thalassaemia Trait (BTT) goes mostly undetected due to its asymptomatic clinical course. However, BTT should be diagnosed so as to conduct a genetic counselling and to prevent the number of births of affected children in turn reducing the financial burden on the affected family. Detection of combined haemolytic anaemia is on a rise due to better screening modalities in haemoglobinopathies. We hereby present two cases of combined BTT and Hereditary Spherocytosis (HS), and their clinical outcome.
AB - Haemoglobinopathies are the commonest haemolytic disorders, prevalent in India and form a major bulk of patients in most of the haematology outpatient clinics. β-thalassaemia is the commonest inherited haemolytic anaemia and presence of β-Thalassaemia Trait (BTT) goes mostly undetected due to its asymptomatic clinical course. However, BTT should be diagnosed so as to conduct a genetic counselling and to prevent the number of births of affected children in turn reducing the financial burden on the affected family. Detection of combined haemolytic anaemia is on a rise due to better screening modalities in haemoglobinopathies. We hereby present two cases of combined BTT and Hereditary Spherocytosis (HS), and their clinical outcome.
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U2 - 10.7860/JCDR/2018/31302.11072
DO - 10.7860/JCDR/2018/31302.11072
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85041138835
SN - 2249-782X
VL - 12
SP - EC09-EC11
JO - Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research
JF - Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research
IS - 1
ER -