An essential factor in distinguishing thalassemia phenotypes is transfusion dependence. While beta-thalassemia major requires life-long blood transfusions for survival, non-transfusion-dependent ...

Patients with beta-thalassemia major (also known as Cooley's anemia) have a reduction or absence of beta protein in their ...

As a result, “you could have red cells that are normal and others that are very small and lack hemoglobin,” Gallagher says. This can affect your MCHC. Beta thalassemia is an inherited blood ...

Certain genotypes of α-thalassemia present with microcytosis ... erythrocytes by size and content and concentration of hemoglobin. Useful in establishing the differential diagnosis of anemia ...

I owe my long interest in inherited blood diseases and tropical medicine to a series of characteristically bizarre decisions by the British Army. In 1958, 2 years after qualifying in medicine from ...

And what are the symptoms to watch out for? As soon as the hemoglobin level drops, Thalassemia patients feel unwell, despite taking medicines. But as soon as they receive a blood transfusion ...

Your doctor may also order tests to assess your hemoglobin, iron, folate, or vitamin B-12 levels. Some of the conditions that cause anisopoikilocytosis are inherited. These include thalassemia and ...

Thalassemia is an inherited blood disorder in which the body makes an abnormal form of hemoglobin. Hemoglobin is the protein molecule in red blood cells that carries oxygen. The disorder results ...