We studied whether problems quantifying hemoglobin A(2) (HbA(2)) could be resolved by using capillary electrophoresis. HbA(2) was quantified on whole blood samples from patients with and without beta-thalassemia trait and patients heterozygous for HbE, HbS, HbC, and HbD Punjab using the VARIANT II beta-thalassemia (Bio-Rad, Hercules, CA) and Capillarys 2 (Sebia, Norcross, GA). HbA(2) results in...

Background: According to a report of WHO in 2007, 7% world populations are carrier for Haemoglobindisorder and accurate timely detection various Hb variants including beta thalassemia trait can preventoccurrence more serious disorders like major new-borns. But developing country ususe high pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC) is limited, manual testing done assessmentis quite impossible. So, a...

Objective: Premarital hemoglobinopathy screening is one of the important procedures of hemoglobinopathy control programs. This is the first report about the prevalence of hemoglobinopathies in Kocaeli. Materials and Methods: The study covered screening from July 2005 to the end of December 2008. Under the auspices of the Ministry of Health and regional health authorities, blood samples of the c...

The level of Hb C in the erythrocytes of individuals with Hb C trait decreases significantly in the presence of coexisting alpha-thalassemia. This relationship may result from the higher affinity of beta A than beta C for limiting amounts of alpha-globin during hemoglobin assembly. This mechanism would predict that the beta A and beta C synthetic capacity in alpha-thalassemic individuals with H...

Blood (print ISSN 0006-4971, online ISSN 1528-0020), is published weekly by only. The American The J Society ournal of of Hematology VOL 72, NO 4 OCTOBER 1988 THALASSEMIA is an autosomal recessive disease characterized by hypochromic, hemolytic anemia, and dependence on blood transfusions to sustain life.' Even with chelation therapy to remove excess iron stores, the life expectancy in classic ...

Background: Chest X-ray is one of the examinations required for an annual health checkup. The interaction of radiation to the medium produces free radicals, which consequently causes biological changes either structural or properties of the cells. Whether the radiation from Chest X-ray upright technique affects the plasma membrane fluidity of thalassemic red blood cells (RBCs) is still unclear....

Thalassemia minor carriage is one of the most common causes anemia in Mediterranean countries. This study aimed to investigate publications scientific journals on thalassemia minor, which an important health problem, especially The goal this was retrieve data from that were indexed Web Science (WoS; Thomson Reuters, New York, NY, USA) database. WOS Core Collection used comprehensive bibliometri...

BACKGROUND Hemoglobinopathies are a group of inherited disorders of hemoglobin synthesis. It could be formed a fatal scenario in concern of lacking of actual information. Beside this, ABO and Rh blood grouping are also important matter in transfusion and forensic medicine and to reduce new born hemolytic disease (NHD). MATERIALS AND METHODS The spectrum and prevalence of various hemoglobinopa...

Recently, ithas been demonstrated thatthe offspring of one parent with the sickle cell trait and one w’ith thalassemia may develop a severe hemolytic anemia with some of the characteristics of both thalassemia and sickle cell disease, ineluding microcytosis and numerous sickled erythrocytes in the blood film. This syndrome has been called mi(’rodrepanocytic,9 or sickle cell-thalassemia, disease...

5 year old male child presented with progressive abdominal distention, pallor, and growth failure since the age of 9 months. The foe did not respond to hematinic and required one blood transfusion for anemia. Liver and spleen were enlarged on abdominal exam. Peripheral smear showed features of haemolytic anemia and neonatal red blood cells. HPLC studies of patient revealed that father was a car...