A 3-day-old baby was the third child of a healthy mother and first-degree cousin parents. The first child also had hydrops fetalis and the second child was a healthy 7-year-old boy. When she was ...
COLUMBIA, Mo. (MU Health Care/KY3) - It would be stretching the truth a little to say soccer is in Bronson Schwenker’s blood. He loves the sport, that much is true. The 6-year-old Kansas City resident ...
Neonates with hereditary spherocytosis (HS) can present with early and severe hemolytic jaundice and anemia, requiring intensive phototherapy and sometimes early ...
Clinical Infectious Diseases publishes clinically relevant articles on the pathogenesis, clinical investigation, medical microbiology, diagnosis, immune mechanisms, and treatment of diseases caused by ...
An osmotic fragility test is a blood test which works to see if red blood cells have a tendency to break apart easily. ‌ Two conditions that can cause this to happen are called thalassemia and ...
In this Journal feature, information about a real patient is presented in stages (boldface type) to an expert clinician, who responds to the information, sharing his or her reasoning with the reader ...
Indore: Doctors at government-run MY Hospital on Saturday claimed to have successfully extracted an unusually large spleen from a 28-year-old man with spherocytosis. The patient's condition was ...
The number of people offering blood donations has gone up after a television appeal involving a four-year-old Hull boy. Isaac has a genetic condition known as Spherocytosis, which requires blood ...