
Common Clinical Syndromes in Beta-Thalassemia
Purpose: | To determine the clinical syndrome experienced by a patient with beta-thalassemia. |
Specialty: | Hematology Oncology Clinical Laboratory Genetics |
Objective: | clinical diagnosis, including family history for genetics |
ICD-10: | D56, D56.1 |
Description: | A patient with beta-thalassemia may be asymptomatic or not, depending on what genes have been inherited. The severity of the anemia correlates with complications. |
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