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Reticulocyte hemoglobin equivalent to detect thalassemia and thalassemic hemoglobin variants.

AbstractINTRODUCTION:
Thalassemia and iron deficiency may both result in hypochromic microcytic anemia. Hematological algorithms that differentiate the two are mainly established in adult selected diagnostic groups. We aimed at creating an algorithm applicable in the presence of children, hemoglobin variants, and iron deficiency.
METHODS:
Our study material constituted blood samples referred during 1 year for routine diagnostics of hemoglobinopathy. We included 443 samples, of which 37% were from children 3 months or older. We found β-thalassemia trait (n = 100), α-thalassemia (n = 75), combined α-/β-thalassemia (n = 14), hemoglobin variants (n = 42), and no-hemoglobinopathy (n = 207), of whom 107 had a ferritin at or below 20 μg/L. We included reticulocyte hemoglobin equivalent, ferritin, and erythrocyte count in our algorithm.
RESULTS:
Our algorithm differentiated β-thalassemia trait from no-hemoglobinopathy with a sensitivity of 99% at 83% specificity. It performed better than other published algorithms when applied to all patient samples, while equally or moderately better in the 63% adult samples. Our algorithm also detected the clinically significant α-thalassemias, and most of the combined α-/β-thalassemias and thalassemic hemoglobin variants.
CONCLUSION:
Our algorithm efficiently differentiated thalassemia and thalassemic hemoglobin variants from iron deficiency in children and adults.
AuthorsÅ A Sudmann, A Piehler, P Urdal
JournalInternational journal of laboratory hematology (Int J Lab Hematol) Vol. 34 Issue 6 Pg. 605-13 (Dec 2012) ISSN: 1751-553X [Electronic] England
PMID22765164 (Publication Type: Journal Article)
Copyright© 2012 Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
Chemical References
  • Hemoglobins
  • Globins
  • Ferritins
Topics
  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Algorithms
  • Child
  • Child, Preschool
  • Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid
  • Erythrocyte Indices
  • Female
  • Ferritins (analysis)
  • Globins (genetics)
  • Hemoglobinopathies (blood, diagnosis, genetics)
  • Hemoglobins (analysis)
  • Humans
  • Infant
  • Male
  • ROC Curve
  • Reproducibility of Results
  • Reticulocytes (metabolism)
  • Sequence Analysis, DNA
  • Young Adult
  • alpha-Thalassemia (blood, diagnosis, genetics)
  • beta-Thalassemia (blood, diagnosis, genetics)

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