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| Fattori,André; Kimura,Elza Miyuki; Albuquerque,Dulcinéia Martins de; Ogo,Satie Hatsushika; Stoppa,Graziela Renata; Martins,Juliana Touquinha; Lima,Carmen Silvia Passos; Saad,Sara Terezinha Ollala; Costa,Fernando Ferreira; Sonati,Maria de Fátima. |
| We report the clinical and laboratory findings concerning three unrelated Brazilian patients investigated for polycythemia, whose definitive diagnosis could only be established after the presence of Hb Coimbra (b99 Asp ® Glu) was demonstrated. This illustrates the importance of properly investigating hereditary hemoglobinopathies in cases of erythrocytosis because in some populations variants with high oxygen affinity may be more frequent than expected but go undetected when conventional electrophoresis is used as the sole detection procedure. |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Polycythemia; Erythrocytosis; Hb Coimbra; Beta-globin gene. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1415-47572006000200002 |
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