Dr. Neel recognized that the parents of children with thalassemia major had thalassemia minor with one beta thalassemia gene. When these parents had children, they had a 25% chance of having a thalassemia major child (with both genes for beta thalassemia), a 50% chance of having children with...
BETA-ThalassemiaMYCOPLASMA pneumoniae infectionsAUTOIMMUNE hemolytic anemiaANEMIAKLEBSIELLA infectionsEditor An 83-year-old man with a history of beta-thalassemia trait (baseline haemoglobin 10 g/dl), coronary artery disease on aspirin, and prior gastrointestinal (GI) bleeds presented to the emergency ...
variably referred to as "Cooley's Anemia" and "Mediterranean Anemia", Thalassemia Intermedia and Thalassemia Minor also called "beta-thalassemia carrier", "beta-thalassemia trait" or "heterozygous beta-thalassemia". Apart from the rare dominant...
Antenatal screening for beta thalassemia trait (BTT) followed by counseling of couples is an efficient way of thalassemia control. Since high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) is costly, other cost-effective screening methods need to be devised for this purpose. The present study was aimed ...
Beta thalassemia minor is due to a mutation in one of the beta-globin genes. A person with this condition has less severe symptoms but still can pass along the genes to their children. The possible symptoms of beta thalassemia minor may includeanemia, tiredness, weakness, pale skin, poor ap...
Adults in a health maintenance organization, unselected for interest, were screened for beta-thalassemia trait as part of preventive health care. Counseling was provided by either a trained physician (conventional counseling) or by a videotape containing the same information followed by an opportunity ...
A normal HbA2 alongside elevated HbF is the distinctive HPLC pattern (as was seen in the father), in contrast to more common HBB mutations where a parents with beta-thalassemia trait exhibitselevated HbA2 levels (as was seen in the mother). It is postulated that deletion of the HBB gene ...
- Thalassemia trait (BTT) in a medical students of Karachi, Pakistan and to confirm the validity of Naked Eye Single Tube Red cell Osmotic Fragility Test (NESTROFT) to qualify for a mass screening test for BTT detection. SETTING: An analytical cross sectional study, performed from Jan 2010 ...
Thalassemia major is one of the most common genetic disorders in Pakistan and over five thousand new patients are added in the pool annually. This familial disease has both medical and social implications, and therefore there is a need to assess the magnitude of beta-Thalassemia trait amongst fam...
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