Here we report the finding of a compound heterozygous genotype of the hemoglobin S and hemoglobin New York β-globin mutations in two unrelated adult males from Central America with splenic infarction, ...

Capillary Electrophoresis plays an important role in the diagnosis of hemoglobinopathy carriers and patients. The general flow is the determination of the red blood cell indices to establish a ...

Purpose: The primary purpose of newborn screening for hemoglobinopathies is the presymptomatic diagnosis and early treatment of sickle cell disease. Hemoglobinopathy traits detected on the newborn ...

Capillary Electrophoresis is one of the newer methods for the detection and evaluation of hemoglobinopathies. It improves upon the alkaline gel electrophoresis platform with a similar migration order, ...

We describe another inherited hemoglobinopathy in a patient presenting with neonatal cyanosis. Shortly after delivery in 1991, a term female infant with cyanosis was found to be nonanemic and to have ...