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
Hauptverfasser: Mojzikova, Renata, Koralkova, Pavla, Holub, Dusan, Zidova, Zuzana, Pospisilova, Dagmar, Cermak, Jaroslav, Striezencova Laluhova, Zuzana, Indrak, Karel, Sukova, Martina, Partschova, Martina, Kucerova, Jana, Horvathova, Monika, Divoky, Vladimir
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