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About methemoglobinemia.
I would like to add to this well written article that we have also reported acquired methemoglobinemia cases with administration of cytanest in puerperal women with g6PD deficiency and infants in whom erythrocyte cytochrome 65 reductase was assoyed [1-4], which is the main enzyme for methemoglobin reductase in erythrocytes as mentioned by the authors. In addition, hereditary methemoglobinemias ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Turkish Journal of Hematology
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1300-7777,1308-5263
DOI: 10.5505/tjh.2012.10170