منابع مشابه
G6PD deficiency.
T HIRTY-FIVE YEARS ago Dr William Dameshek, the first editor of the emerging journal Blood, invited me to write a review on “The Hemolytic Effect of Primaquine.”’ At the time, primaquine sensitivity, which had just recently been shown to be caused by a deficiency of the enzyme glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD); represented a unique example of an inherited deficiency of an enzyme that cau...
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During the pandemic influenza A, a five-year-old boy was admitted to the hospital with the complaints of high fever, cough and sneezing. Influenza virus analysis from the nasopharyngeal discharge was positive for influenza A virus. The patient previously had an acute hemolytic attack after eating fava beans, and glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency was later established. As he ha...
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Introduction: Various factors are involved in the pathogenesis of acne vulgaris. Recently, G6PD deficiency has been proposed in the pathogenesis of acne. G6PD has an important role in the oxidant/antioxidant balance. According to this theory, antioxidants are used in the treatment of acne recently. The aim of this study was to evaluate G6PD deficiency in patient with acne vulgaris. Methods: The...
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LETTER TO ETITOR G6PD (Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase) enzyme deficiency is the most common inherited enzyme deficiency so far reported. 1 This enzyme deficiency affects 400 million people worldwide. 2 Most cases of the disease are from tropical regions of Africa, the Middle East, tropical and subtropical regions of Asia and the Mediterranean margin, arise from the process of natural selecti...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Turkish Journal of Hematology
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1300-7777,1308-5263
DOI: 10.5152/tjh.2010.17