Combined Hereditary Spherocytosis and ß-thalassemia trait: A Rare
Co-existence
Published: January 1, 2018 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.7860/JCDR/2018/31302.11072
Hanaganahalli Basavaiah Sridevi, Saraswathy Sreeram, Anupama Hegde, Prashantha Balanthimogru, Shrijeet Chakraborti
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CULARS OF CONTRIBUTORS:
1. Associate Professor, Department of Pathology, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Mangaluru, Karnataka, India.
2. Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Mangaluru, Karnataka, India.
3. Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Mangaluru, Karnataka, India.
4. Assistant Professor, Department of General Medicine, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Mangaluru, Karnataka, India.
5. Associate Professor, Department of Pathology, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Mangaluru, Karnataka, India.
Correspondence
Dr. Saraswathy Sreeram,
Department of Pathology Kasturba Medical College, Lighthouse Hill Road, Hampankatta, Mangaluru-575001, Karnataka, India.
E-mail: swameeram@gmail.com
Haemoglobinopathies are the commonest haemolytic disorders, prevalent in India and form a major bulk of patients in most of the haematology outpatient clinics. ß-thalassaemia is the commonest inherited haemolytic anaemia and presence of ß-Thalassaemia Trait (BTT) goes mostly undetected due to its asymptomatic clinical course. However, BTT should be diagnosed so as to conduct a genetic counselling and to prevent the number of births of affected children in turn reducing the financial burden on the affected family. Detection of combined haemolytic anaemia is on a rise due to better screening modalities in haemoglobinopathies. We hereby present two cases of combined BTT and Hereditary Spherocytosis (HS), and their clinical outcome.
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