Changes in the mean corpuscular red cell volume in women with β-thalassaemia trait during pregnancy
- 1 March 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in British Journal of Haematology
- Vol. 50 (3) , 423-425
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2141.1982.tb01937.x
Abstract
Asian women (38) with .beta.-thalassemia trait and normal Asian women(35) were studied retrospectively during normal pregnancies. The red cell size increased in both groups, with a mean increase of 2.3 Fl [femtoliters] (SD 2.3) in the women with .beta.-thalassemia trait and a significantly higher increase of 4.3 fl (SD 2.1) in the normal Asian women. The rise in red cell size during pregnancy, which is a physiological change, is impaired by defective globin-chain synthesis as well as by Fe deficiency.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- THE PHYSIOLOGICAL MACROCYTOSIS OF PREGNANCYBJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 1977