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Leukoreduced red blood cell transfusions do not induce platelet glycoprotein antibodies in patients with sickle cell disease
Salmonella as a Causative Organism of Various Infections in Patients with Sickle Cell Disease
Homozygosity for the Mediterranean α-thalassemic deletion (hemoglobin Barts hydrops fetalis)
Hemoglobin Barts hydrops fetalis syndrome is the most severe and generally fatal clinical phenotype of α-thalassemia. We diagnosed a fetus at 23-weeks gestation with having hydrops fetalis, by ultrasound. At 32 weeks, intrauterine death was detected. Molecular studies revealed that the fetus had the hemoglobin Barts hydrops fetalis syndrome due to homozygosity for the Mediterranean α-thalassemia deletion. This clinical phenotype is generally rare in the Eastern Mediterranean, and this is the first report of this syndrome from Iraq. Techniques for molecular characterization became available only very recently in this country, in a diagnostic setting. Thus, the detection of further cases might be expected in future