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  • Prenatal exome sequencing (ES) successfully identified both fetal and maternal genetic diagnoses, revealing a shared pathogenic gamma globin variant in a fetus with unexplained anemia and a mother with sickle cell disease (SCD).
  • The identified variant, HbF Mission Bay HBG2, is linked to various blood-related conditions, including cyanosis and hemolytic anemia, which generally emerge in infancy but can persist into adulthood.
  • In this case, the mother's own symptoms from the variant, such as recurrent hypoxia and methemoglobinemia during pregnancy, occurred alongside the fetus's need for multiple blood transfusions and post-birth methemoglobinemia.
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Enteric duplication cysts and reversed intestinal rotation (RIR) are rare congenital anomalies, with their coexistence being exceptionally uncommon. We report a 4-year-old girl who presented with chronic anemia and intermittent abdominal symptoms since infancy. Detailed workup for medical causes of anemia was inconclusive.

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Newborn Screening for Hurler Syndrome Facilitates Early Transplant and Good Outcomes.

Pediatr Neurol

November 2024

Division of Pediatric Transplant and Cellular Therapy, Department of Pediatrics, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.

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  • The study examines the outcomes of hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) in infants with Hurler syndrome (HS) diagnosed through newborn screening (NBS).
  • Patients underwent a busulfan-based treatment regimen and umbilical cord blood HCT, showing promising results with no graft failures and recovery of enzyme levels.
  • At follow-up, most patients were thriving and meeting developmental milestones, suggesting that NBS and early transplantation are effective in treating HS.
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Iron deficiency (ID) is common during gestation and early infancy and can alter developmental trajectories with lasting consequences on cardiovascular health. Iron plays a critical role in systemic oxygen transport (via hemoglobin) and aerobic respiration (as a component of mitochondrial complexes). Perinatal ID has been shown to cause cardiac dysfunction in neonates, but the mechanisms underlying these changes have not been characterized.

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Thrombopoietin (THPO) is a regulator of megakaryopoiesis and thrombopoiesis. Mutation of the gene is known to cause congenital amegakaryocytic thrombocytopenia (CAMT2), which is a rare inherited disorder characterized by early infancy thrombocytopenia and absent or decreased megakaryocytes with gradual progression to pancytopenia. We report the case of a Saudi girl who had been asymptomatic until age seven when she was found to have unexplained thrombocytopenia.

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