Diagnostic problems in severe neonatal jaundice and G6PD deficiency in Greece.
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Diagnostic problems in severe neonatal jaundice and G6PD deficiency in Greece.
Since the first observation in Greece by Doxiadis, Fessas, and Valaes in 1960, it is now well established that a considerable proportion of full-term Greek newborns with severe jaundice (and/or anaemia) have G6PD deficiency. Similar cases have been described in other parts of the world (Freier, Mayer, Levene, and Abrahamov, 1965). G6PD deficiency and increased haemolysis are obviously cause and...
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عنوان ژورنال: Archives of Disease in Childhood
سال: 1968
ISSN: 0003-9888,1468-2044
DOI: 10.1136/adc.43.227.36