S 813 vere normochromic normocytic anemia at, or shortly after birth. Karyotyping was normal and the only other laboratory abnormality was an increased fetal hemoglobin concentration. The anemia seemed to remit somewhat with increasing age so that transfusion need was minimal. In addition, one patient may have had a response to steroid therapy.-J. B. S. A NEW HEMOGLOBIN : HB J SABDEGNA ( a50 HI...

Aim:We aimed to investigate the prevalence of anemia at admission intensive care unit (ICU), association between and mortality, lengths stay in hospital ICU (LOS-H LOS-ICU) COVID-19 patients.
 Material Methods:We retrospectively analyzed data 288 patients who needed admission. Patients were divided into two groups: anemic nonanemic. Demographic data, labaratory findings admission, LOS-H LO...

A 60-year-old male patient presented with jaundice. Initial investigations showed anemia, indirect hyperbilirubinemia, raised Lactic Dehydrogenase (LDH) and increased reticulocyte count suggestive of hemolysis. Considering hemolysis low MCV and basophilic stippling on peripheral film, hemoglobin electrophoresis was done that showed Haemoglobin H (15.5%) that in the absence of family history was...

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES Awareness of hemoglobin level variability in dialysis patients is increasing, as is interest in its potential implications. In this retrospective, national study of associations between the degree of hemoglobin level variability in the first 6 mo of 2004 and subsequent mortality rates in the following 6 mo, 159,720 hemodialysis patients receiving epoetin therapy were studi...

3. Perrine SP, Greene MF, Failer DV. Delay in the fetal globin switch in infants of diabetic mothers. N Engl J Med 1985;312:334-8. 4. Bard H, Prosmanne J. Relative rates of fetal hemoglobin and adult hemoglobin' synthesis in cord blood of infants of insulin-dependent mothers. Pediatrics 1985;75:1143-7. 5. Bard H, Prosmanne J. Postnatal fetal and adult hemoglobin synthesis in preterm infants who...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Hemoglobin Constant Spring (Hb CS), caused by a termination codon mutation (TAA-->CAA) in the a2 gene, is the most common non-deletional type of a thalassemia in Southeast Asia. This mutation can most easily be detected by loss of an MseI-restriction site (T/TAA) spanning the termination codon. Recently, we sequenced the a globin genes from patients with a thalassemia ...

I N 1955 RIGAS ET AL.1 and Gouttas et al.2 independently reported the discovery of a new hemoglobin characterized electrophoretically at pH 8.6 by a more rapid anodal mobility than that of normal adult hemoglobin. This hemoglobin has subsequently been identified by the letter “H.” More recently, “fast” hemoglobins other than “H” have been described. These include hemoglobins J,3 J,4-1#{176} K,5...