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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Heimpel, Hermann
• Kohne, Elisabeth
• Schrod, Lothar
• Schwarz, Klaus
• Wickramasinghe, Sunitha

Titel

A new type of transfusion-dependent congenital dyserythropoietic anemia

Ist Teil von

• Haematologica (Roma), 2007-10, Vol.92 (10), p.1427-1428

Ort / Verlag

Pavia: Haematologica

Erscheinungsjahr

2007

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• * Departments of Internal Medicine and ° Pediatrics # Institute of Clinical Transfusion and Immunogenetics, University of Ulm, Germany; @ Department of Pediatrics Frankfurt-Hoechst, Germany; ^ Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College, London, UK Correspondence: Hermann Heimpel, FRCPath, Zentrum für Innere Medizin, Robert-Koch-Str. 8, D-89081 Ulm, Germany. Phone: international +49.0731.50069413. Fax: international +49.0731.500.69412: E-mail: hermann.heimpel{at}uniklinik-ulm.de Cases of congenital dyserythropoietic anemia (CDA) that do not conform to any of the three classical types often present diagnostic difficulties and are at risk of developing secondary hemochromatosis. Here, we report a case of a six year old boy with transfusion dependency and gross abnormalities of the erythroblasts. Key words: congenital dyserythropoietic anemia, classification, electron microscopy.