TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - The Thalassemias A1 - Damon, Lloyd E. A1 - Andreadis, Charalambos Babis A2 - Papadakis, Maxine A. A2 - Rabow, Michael W. A2 - McQuaid, Kenneth R. A2 - Gandhi, Monica PY - 2025 T2 - Current Medical Diagnosis & Treatment 2025 AB - ESSENTIALS OF DIAGNOSISMicrocytosis disproportionate to the degree of anemia.Positive family history.Lifelong personal history of microcytic anemia.Normal or elevated RBC count.Abnormal RBC morphology with microcytes, hypochromia, acanthocytes, and target cells.In beta-thalassemia, elevated levels of hemoglobin A2 and F. SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/11/12 UR - accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1209225222 ER -