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Abstract
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.
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- A-Thalassemia
- Alpha Thalassemia
- Hemoglobin H Disease
- Thalassemia-alpha
- Disease, Hemoglobin H
- Thalassemia alpha
- Thalassemia, Alpha
- alpha-Thalassemias
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.
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do not use /congen & do not coord with INFANT, NEWBORN, DISEASES
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History Note
93; was see THALASSEMIA 1988-92; HEMOGLOBIN H DISEASE was see THALASSEMIA 1982-92
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- Thalassemia (1966-1992)
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References
- National Library of Medicine. alpha-Thalassemia. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D017085. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D017085
- alpha-Thalassemia. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha-thalassemia
- alpha-Thalassemia. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q288714