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Title: Thalassemia intermedia associated with the Hb Constant Spring EE Bart's disease in pregnancy: a molecular and hematological analysis.
Author: Fucharoen S, Fucharoen G, Sae-ung N, Sanchaisuriya K.
Journal: Blood Cells Mol Dis; 2007; 39(2):195-8. PubMed ID: 17587614.
Abstract:
We defined the molecular basis and analyzed hematological phenotype associated with an unusual form of thalassemia intermedia caused by interaction of the hemoglobin Constant Spring (Hb CS), homozygous Hb E and alpha degrees -thalassemia found in two unrelated pregnant Thai women. Both patients had moderate anemia and characteristic of thalassemia intermedia. Hb-HPLC analysis demonstrated in both cases, Hb E and Hb Constant Spring with 3-4% Hb Bart's. Hb F was marginally elevated (3-5%). Both of them were diagnosed hematologically as the Hb CS EE Bart's disease. DNA analysis revealed the homozygosity for Hb E in both cases and identified the Hb CS mutation in trans to the alpha degrees -thalassemia allele with the SEA deletion in one case and with the Thai deletion in another. The appearance of Hb-HPLC peak resembling the Hb CS in peripheral blood of the two cases indicated the ability to form a tetrameric Hb molecule between alpha(CS) and beta(E) chains leading to a hybrid Hb namely the Hb E-CS (alpha2(CS)beta2(E)) with similar characteristics to Hb CS (alpha2(CS)beta2(A)). Hematological data of the patients were presented comparatively with other forms of related disorders in our series including 2 Hb H/Hb EE diseases, 16 homozygous Hb CS with and without Hb E, 14 Hb H diseases and 35 Hb H-CS diseases. Different genotype-phenotype correlations observed in these Thai patients with these disorders are illustrated.

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