We report a hereditary hemolytic anemia associated with a severe erythrocyte pyrimidine 5'-nucleotidase deficiency in a Spanish family of five members in which the parents are first cousins. Both parents exhibited decreased nucleotidase activity without clinical or hematologic abnormalities. Two chi
Three cases of hereditary hemolytic anemia with pyrimidine 5′-nucleotidase deficiency in a Japanese family
✍ Scribed by Shiro Miwa; Koji Nakashima; Hisaichi Fujii; Minoru Matsumoto; Koichiro Nomura
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1977
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 174 KB
- Volume
- 37
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0340-6717
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✦ Synopsis
Introduction.
Erythrocyte pyrimidine 5'-nucleotidase (5"ribonucleotide phosphohydrolase EC 3.1.3.5, P5N) deficiency associated with hereditary nonspherocytic hemolytic anemia was first described by Valentine et al. (1974). We now report three female cases with this deficiency found in a Japanese family.
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