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Thirty members with typical hereditary spherocytosis (HS) and over 90 apparently unaffected members belonging to 12 families have been studied. Splenectomy has been performed on 22 HS patients. Of nine HS individuals, who had not undergone surgical treatment in 1957, four suffered from temporary severe anaemia, presumably due to aplastic crisis associated with influenza.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFStudies of the clinical features of hereditary spherocytosis since 1871 and laboratory investigation of the cellular abnormalities since 1940 have led to the characterization of hereditary spherocytosis as a prime example of a Mendelian dominant, genetically determined disorder of the erythrocyte membrane. This review of hereditary spherocytosis emphasizes the contributions of Dr. Lawrence Young and many others of out present understanding of the disease and discusses current studies of the protein abnormality in the membrane of hereditary spherocytes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF[Herediatary anemia, expecially constitutional familial pancytopathy].
Bull Acad Natl Med
February 1969
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