Thalassemia

Thalassemia is also called thalassemia. It is a group of hereditary small cell hemolytic anemia. Its common feature is that one or several globin peptide chains in hemoglobin are reduced or cannot be synthesized due to a defect in the globin gene. As a result of changes in the composition of hemoglobin, the clinical symptoms of this group of diseases are different, and most of them are chronic progressive hemolytic anemia.

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