Correlation between the proportion of red blood cell (RBC) containing inclusion bodies (IBs) and HbH amount in HbH disease
- Author:
Hang Ty Vu
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
red blood cell
- MeSH:
Erythrocytes;
Hemoglobin H
- From:Journal of Vietnamese Medicine
1999;233(2):34-36
- CountryViet Nam
- Language:Vietnamese
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Abstract:
The relationship between the relative amounts of HbH and the proportions of RBC with inclusion bodies (IBs) as shown that almost straight, getting a correlation coefficient of 0.86, the regression line cuts the x- axis of RBC with lbs at 19%, indicating that demonstration of RBC with IBs is more sensitive in detecting HbH than electrophoresis. Strickingly the mean level of both HbH and percentage of RBC with lbs were significantly higher in a- than 1/HbCS than in a- than 1/ a -than2. These results led us to conclude that examination of the intraerythrocytic inclusion bodies is able to be used as a “probe” technique in unequiped laboratory for detecting HbH disease.
