Hereditary elliptocytic anaemia

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A sibship with four cases of hereditary elliptocytic anaemia is described. The condition in this family may have arisen as a mutation in the mother of the sibship; affected members were unable to taste phenylthiocarbamide while normal members were tasters.Experiments with32P-orthophosphatein vitrodid not show any evidence of biochemical upset as found in hereditary spherocytosis; thus a combination of congenital spherocytosis and elliptocytosis cannot be supported as the cause of the haemolytic state. Clinical evidence of haemolytic disease was accompanied by a tendency to excessive lysisin vitro.Infection may play a part in the precipitation of anaemic crises in this as in other hereditary haemolytic anaemias.

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