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Nov 19th, 2020 - Objectives: We aimed to determine the clinical and genetic characteristics of a boy diagnosed with the β-thalassemia trait. He also had hereditary spherocytosis (HS) that had been overlooked for 7 years. Methods: Blood samples collected from the p...

Nov 14th, 2020 - Hereditary spherocytosis (HS) is the most common haemolytic anaemia caused by congenital membrane defects of red blood cells. The name derives from the presence of spherical red blood cells in the peripheral blood. Clinical manifestations of HS ar...

Nov 13th, 2020 - Haemolytic crisis of hereditary spherocytosis.|2020|Matsuura H,Shiraishi Y,|

Oct 19th, 2020 - Hereditary red blood cell (RBC) membranopathies are characterized by mutations in genes encoding skeletal proteins that alter the membrane complex structure. Hereditary spherocytosis (HS) is the most common inherited RBC membranopathy leading to h...

Oct 19th, 2020 - We report a case of a patient with a known hereditary spherocytosis who developed a bilateral macular hemorrhage in concurrence with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)-related respiratory syndrome. Blood tests showed seve...

Mar 19th, 2015 - Hereditary spherocytosis (HS), hereditary elliptocytosis (HE), and hereditary stomatocytosis (HSt) are inherited red cell disorders caused by defects in various membrane proteins. The heterogeneous clinical presentation, biochemical and genetic ab...

Nov 7th, 2011 - Guidelines on hereditary spherocytosis (HS) published in 2004 (Bolton-Maggs et al, 2004) are here replaced to reflect changes in current opinion on the surgical management, (particularly the indications for concomitant splenectomy with cholecystec...

Nov 19th, 2020 - Objectives: We aimed to determine the clinical and genetic characteristics of a boy diagnosed with the β-thalassemia trait. He also had hereditary spherocytosis (HS) that had been overlooked for 7 years. Methods: Blood samples collected from the p...

Nov 14th, 2020 - Hereditary spherocytosis (HS) is the most common haemolytic anaemia caused by congenital membrane defects of red blood cells. The name derives from the presence of spherical red blood cells in the peripheral blood. Clinical manifestations of HS ar...

Nov 13th, 2020 - Haemolytic crisis of hereditary spherocytosis.|2020|Matsuura H,Shiraishi Y,|

Oct 19th, 2020 - Hereditary red blood cell (RBC) membranopathies are characterized by mutations in genes encoding skeletal proteins that alter the membrane complex structure. Hereditary spherocytosis (HS) is the most common inherited RBC membranopathy leading to h...

Oct 19th, 2020 - We report a case of a patient with a known hereditary spherocytosis who developed a bilateral macular hemorrhage in concurrence with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)-related respiratory syndrome. Blood tests showed seve...

Feb 5th, 2018 - Comment Dermal extramedullary hematopoiesis is a normal component of embryologic development up until the fifth month of gestation. 1 The term blueberry muffin rash typically is used to describe the cutaneous manifestations of extramedullary hemato.

Darier disease is an autosomal-dominant inherited genodermatosis. A woman is described who had Darier disease and hereditary spherocytosis whose inframammary Darier disease had dramatic and sustained improvement following reduction mammaplasty.