RT Book, Section
A1 Damon, Lloyd E.
A1 Andreadis, Charalambos Babis
A2 Papadakis, Maxine A.
A2 McPhee, Stephen J.
A2 Rabow, Michael W.
A2 McQuaid, Kenneth R.
SR Print(0)
ID 1193157955
T1 The Thalassemias
T2 Current Medical Diagnosis & Treatment 2023
YR 2023
FD 2023
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9781264687343
LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1193157955
RD 2023/12/06
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.