Diagnosis of patients with hemoglobinopathies including α-thalassemia in a laboratory with limited resources

BACKGROUND: Diagnosis of α-thalassemia can be challenging as it is clinically insignificant in the majority of patients who are presented with one or two α-gene deletion, it cannot be always suspected from the red cell indices, and the confirmatory tests of α-thalassemia are not readily available, a...

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Main Authors: Abbas Hashim Abdulsalam, Subh Salim Al-Mudallal, Nidhal Karim Al-Rahal
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2020-01-01
Series:Iraqi Journal of Hematology
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Online Access:http://www.ijhonline.org/article.asp?issn=2072-8069;year=2020;volume=9;issue=2;spage=77;epage=81;aulast=Abdulsalam