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Blood, 1 September 2003, Vol. 102, No. 5, pp. 1568
BLOOD WORK
Peripheral smear from a patient with thalassemiaHbE disease

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Stanley Schrier, Stanford University School of Medicine
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Note the profound red blood cell hypochromia, target cells, and small fragments. For unclear reasons, double heterozygosity for 2 clinically mild conditions leads to a variable clinical picture, with hemoglobin values ranging from 3.5 g/dL to 13 g/dL but frequently with a severity like that of thalassemia major.
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