Haemoglobin O Arab in Sudanese

Haemoglobin 0 Disease in a Sudanese Family

Besides sickle-cell anaemia, the finding of Hb S with other /3-chain variants of adult haemoglobin was first demonstrated by Itano and Neel (1950) in the well-known discovery of sicklecell Hb C disease. Since then Hb S has been observed with Hb D, E, G, J. and K (Itano, 1951; Aksoy and Lehmann, 1957; Schwartz and Spaet, 1955 ; Went and MacIver, 1959; O'Gorman et al., 1963). In such circumstance...

Haemoglobin O Padova and falsely low haemoglobin A1c in a patient with type I diabetes.

Glycated haemoglobin (HbA1c) measured by high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) in a 20 year old female with insulin dependent diabetes mellitus was consistently within the normal range although her daily blood glucose values were > 11.1 mmol/l. HbA1c measured by immunoagglutination and fructosamine was elevated and correlated with the patient's blood glucose values. The HPLC chromatogra...

The Osmotic Pressure o f Haemoglobin in the Absence o f Salts

Rickets in Sudanese Children

1. Vitamin D-Defficiency or Infantile Rickets: This is extremely rare in the Sudan owing to the availability of sun-shine throughout the year. Since infantile rickets is common in some other African countries where sun-shine is also constant throughout the year, other factors, which obstruct the natural ultraviolet irradiation e.g. crowded housing and overprotection of infants must be operating...

Coeliac disease in Sudanese children.

Coeliac disease has not hitherto been documented in Sudanese children. This report describes seven Sudanese children with coeliac disease of whom two are siblings. They all had evidence of impaired intestinal absorption, severe histological changes of their jejunal mucosa with clinical and histological improvement on gluten free/sorgham free diet. Subsequently one patient had a clinical relapse...