A 15-month-old male baby of Chinese ethnicity was brought by his parents to the emergency department of our hospital with lethargy and yellowish discoloration of eyes, noticed for ;24 hours. On examination, the baby was pale and icteric. Blood tests revealed a low hemoglobin of 50 g/L, mild neutrophilia, and normal platelet count. A blood film examination showed normocytic normochromic red cell...

Legumes considered as one of the most important crops worldwide. Due to high price as a PDO product, commercial products of "Fava Santorinis" are often subjected to adulterations from other legume products coming from other Lathyrus or Vicia and Pisum species. Using plant DNA barcoding regions (trnL and rpoC) coupled with High Resolution Melting (Bar-HRM) we have developed a method allowing us ...

Description Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency is the most common human enzyme deficiency that mainly affects the red blood cells (RBCs). A defect in G6PD enzyme leads to the destruction of premature RBCs causing hemolytic anemia because the body can not compensate the destroyed RBCs. Thus, the affected individuals show jaundice (paleness, yellowing of the skin and whites of th...

 Backgrounds: G6PD deficiency is the most common enzymopathy of red blood cells. The clinical symptoms of favism are jaundice, hematuria and haemolytic anaemia that seem to affect liver and kidney in long term. Thus we evaluate kidney and liver function of favism patients in an endemic area of the disease with a high rate of fava beans cultivation. Methods: This study was performed on favism pa...

The primary metabolic defect in subjects susceptible to hemolysis by various drugs and fava beans is considered to be the low glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) activity in their red cells (1, 2). Such diminished enzymatic activity could be the end result of qualitative or quantitative changes in the enzyme as well as enzyme inhibition or lack of enzyme activation. However, studies on the...

BACKGROUND G6PD deficiency is the most common enzymopathy of red blood cells. The clinical symptoms of favism are jaundice, hematuria and haemolytic anaemia that seem to affect liver and kidney in long term. Thus we evaluate kidney and liver function of favism patients in an endemic area of the disease with a high rate of fava beans cultivation. METHODS This study was performed on favism pati...

Red blood cells carry oxygen in the body and Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase protects these cells from oxidative chemicals. If there is a lack of Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase, red blood cells can go acute hemolysis. Convulsion is a rare presentation for acute hemolysis due to Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase deficiency. Herein, we report a case report of a Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogen...

Red blood cells (RBC) from favic patients are characterized by (a) severe oxidative damage (contributed by autoxidation of divicine and isouramil, two pyrimidine aglycones present in fava beans) and (b) greatly increased calcium levels. In vitro, both autoxidation of divicine and calcium loading produced marked alterations of proteolytic systems in intact RBC. Specifically, autoxidizing divicin...

We report seven consecutive episodes of acute massive haemolysis accompanied by symptomatic anaemia and gross haemoglobinuria in six boys with glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency seen in a regional hospital during a 12-year period. They presented at a mean age of 5.5 years (range, 1.5-11.3 years) with trough haemoglobin levels between 35 and 84 g/L. Two children developed transient ren...