The primary defect in hereditary spherocytosis is a deficiency of membrane surface area.
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Measuring iron stores is therefore considered part of the diagnostic approach to hereditary spherocytosis.
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Spherocytosis most often refers to hereditary spherocytosis.
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Spherocytosis most often refers to hereditary spherocytosis.
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OF include hereditary spherocytosis and hypernatremia, while some linked to " decreased"
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In hereditary spherocytosis, red blood cells fail to pass through and get phagocytosed, causing extravascular hemolysis.
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Mutations of spectrin and protein 4.1 are associated with elliptocytosis or spherocytosis and anemia of varying severity.
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Spherocytosis patients who are heterozygous for a hemochromatosis gene may suffer from iron overload despite the hemochromatosis genes being recessive.
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These include regenerative anaemia, spherocytosis, icteric plasma, leukopenia due to neutropenia, thrombocytopenia, eosinopenia and bilirubinuria.
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Castle and his team later characterized the red blood cell defects that are responsible for paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria and hereditary spherocytosis.
