 alpha-Thalassemia
"alpha-Thalassemia" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A disorder characterized by reduced synthesis of the alpha chains of hemoglobin. The severity of this condition can vary from mild anemia to death, depending on the number of genes deleted.
| Descriptor ID |
D017085
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C15.378.071.141.150.875.100 C15.378.420.826.100 C16.320.070.875.100 C16.320.365.826.100
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| Concept/Terms |
alpha-Thalassemia- alpha-Thalassemia
- alpha-Thalassemias
- Alpha Thalassemia
- Thalassemia, Alpha
- Thalassemia-alpha
- Thalassemia alpha
- A-Thalassemia
- Hemoglobin H Disease
- Disease, Hemoglobin H
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Hsu LL, Miller ST, Wright E, Kutlar A, McKie V, Wang W, Pegelow CH, Driscoll C, Hurlet A, Woods G, Elsas L, Embury S, Adams RJ. Alpha Thalassemia is associated with decreased risk of abnormal transcranial Doppler ultrasonography in children with sickle cell anemia. J Pediatr Hematol Oncol. 2003 Aug; 25(8):622-8.
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