Study of serum hepcidin in hereditary hemolytic anemias.

The aim of this study was to assess the level of hepcidin in hereditary chronic hemolytic anemias and to correlate the serum hepcidin levels to the need for blood transfusions (frequency of blood transfusions and the serum ferritin level). Seventy pediatric patients with hereditary chronic hemolytic anemias, attending to hematology clinics of Cairo University and Misr University for Science and Technology (MUST) hospitals were the subjects of this study [53 patients with β-thalassemia major (β-TM), 10 patients with β-thalassemia intermedia (β-TI), four patients with congenital spherocytosis and three patients with sickle cell disease) (38 males and 32 females)]; their ages ranged from 1-14 years. Seventy normal children, age- and sex-matched, served as the control group.

Study of protein C, protein S, and antithrombin III in newborns with sepsis.

Objective: The aim of this study is to clarify the effect of sepsis on the physiologic inhibition system of coagulation including protein S, protein C, and antithrombin III, and to study their further effect on thromboembolic accidents of septic newborns.

Design: Clinical study including 30 septic neonates and 30 normal neonates served as control group.

Data Sources: MEDLINE, pediatric textbooks, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University.