Examples of thalassemia in the following topics:
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- Diseases such as sickle cell anemia and thalassemia decrease the blood's ability to deliver oxygen to tissues and its oxygen-carrying capacity.
- Thalassemia is a rare genetic disease caused by a defect in either the alpha or the beta subunit of Hb.
- Patients with thalassemia produce a high number of red blood cells, but these cells have lower-than-normal levels of hemoglobin.
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- Certain genetic diseases, such as sickle cell anemia, spherocytosis, thalassemia, and glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency can lead to increased red cell lysis and, therefore, hemolytic jaundice.
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- Because of this property, they have attracted interest from medical science in metal chelation therapy, with the siderophore desferrioxamine B gaining widespread use in treatments for iron poisoning and thalassemia.
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- The other types of conditions commonly screened for include neural tube defects, chromosome abnormalities, genetic diseases, spina bifida, cleft palate, Tay-Sachs disease, sickle cell anemia, thalassemia, cystic fibrosis, and fragile X syndrome.