Iron status in patients with pyruvate kinase deficiency: neonatal hyperferritinaemia associated with a novel frameshift deletion in the PKLR gene (p.Arg518fs), and low hepcidin to ferritin ratios
Summary Pyruvate kinase (PK) deficiency is an iron‐loading anaemia characterized by chronic haemolysis, ineffective erythropoiesis and a requirement for blood transfusion in most cases. We studied 11 patients from 10 unrelated families and found nine different disease‐causing PKLR mutations. Two of...
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Veröffentlicht in: | British journal of haematology 2014-05, Vol.165 (4), p.556-563 |
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