Studies of a family with hereditary elliptocytosis
Heilmann, E.; Erhart, R.; Neumann, K.H.; Krumme, B.; Tentrup, R.
Folia Haematologica 107(3): 385-390
1980
ISSN/ISBN: 0323-4347 PMID: 6159277 Document Number: 155155
In a 35 years-old patient the diagnosis of anaemia with elliptocytosis was made, and the family of this patient studied. In 5 of total 16 probands elliptocytes in the peripheral blood were found. Only in one case there was a haemolytic anaemia with an enlarged spleen. Splenectomy led to clinical healing.