Few literatures have elaborated on the clinical characteristics of children with thalassemia from low-prevalence areas. A retrospective analysis was conducted on children genetically confirmed with thalassemia at Seoul National University Children's Hospital in Korea. Nine children (1α thalassemia trait, 6β thalassemia minor, 2β thalassemia intermedia) were diagnosed with thalassemia at median ...

Thalassemia, a hereditary anemia, has been a major public health problem in Thailand and Southeast Asia for decades, yet the prevalence of thalassemia in Thailand is not decreasing due to lack of awareness of this disease in Thai population, which implied that genetic counseling was a failure. We determined the problems and obstacles in thalassemia counseling in Thailand and proposed the possib...

In Ontario, Canada, beta-thalassemia is easily detected through measurement of hemoglobin A2, but most laboratories do not do exhaustive DNA investigations for alpha-thalassemia. Therefore, the prevalence of thalassemia in microcytic samples for hemoglobinopathy investigation in Ontario is unknown. To address this, we performed a prospective cohort study in which samples referred for hemoglobin...

Mục tiêu nghiên cứu: Mô tả đặc điểm huyết học và tỷ lệ lưu hành gen bệnh tan máu bẩm sinh (thalassemia) ở trẻ em 3-15 tuổi tại huyện Hà Quảng, tỉnh Cao Bằng. Phương pháp cắt ngang có phân tích trên đối tượng là 223 từ 3 -15 Bằng tháng 9/2021 đến 1/2023. Kết quả Tỷ thiếu chung 18,9%; mức độ nặng 0,9%, vừa 5,8%, nhẹ 12,1%; hồng cầu nhỏ nhược sắc 25,6%; sắt đơn thuần 1,8%; 0,4%, bất thường tố 7,2%...

BACKGROUND Prevention and control of thalassemia requires simple, rapid, and accurate screening tests for carrier couples who are at risk of conceiving fetuses with severe thalassemia. METHODS Single-tube multiplex real-time PCR with SYBR Green1 and high-resolution melting (HRM) analysis were used for the identification of α-thalassemia-1 Southeast Asian (SEA) and Thai type deletions and β-th...

Oxidative damage induced by free globin chains has been implicated in the pathogenesis of the membrane abnormalities observed in alpha and beta thalassemia. We have evaluated transport of Na+ and K+ in erythrocytes of patients with thalassemias as well as in two experimental models that use normal human red blood cells, one for alpha thalassemia (methylhydrazine treatment, alpha thalassemia lik...

Hemoglobin E (HbE) is an extremely common structural hemoglobin variant that occurs at high frequencies throughout many Asian countries. It is a β-hemoglobin variant, which is produced at a slightly reduced rate and hence has the phenotype of a mild form of β thalassemia. Its interactions with different forms of α thalassemia result in a wide variety of clinical disorders, whereas its coinherit...

Advances in treatment of thalassemia have led to the aging of thalassemic patients, and consequently concern about successful reproductive outcome is augmented. Although women with thalassemia intermedia only were considered competent of achieving pregnancy, case series reveal the willingness of both thalassemia major and thalassemia intermedia women to have a family. Pregnancy in general is ch...

Thalassemia Reports (ISSN: 2039-4365) was launched in 2011 and has become the premier peer-reviewed international medical journal devoted entirely to study, diagnosis, treatment of thalassemia [...]

Thalassemia is a genetic disorder that involves abnormal haemoglobin formation. The two main categories of thalassemia are alpha and beta thalassemia that are then divided into further subcategories. While some mild forms of thalassemia might even go unnoticed and only cause mild anaemia and iron deficiency problems in patients, other more severe forms of thalassemia can even result in death. I...