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  • Title: Haemoglobin H disease and beta-thalassaemia. Clinical haematological and electrophoretic studies in a family from South Lebanon.
    Author: Shahid MJ, Khouri FP, Sahli IF.
    Journal: J Med Genet; 1974 Sep; 11(3):275-9. PubMed ID: 4372355.
    Abstract:
    A family is described in which four sibs are affected with haemoglobin H disease. To our knowledge, this is the first instance where this disorder has been encountered in the Lebanon. In fact only a few cases have so far been reported from the Arab world. All four sibs had typical haemoglobin H bands on electrophoretic examination, and characteristic intracorpuscular inclusion bodies were demonstrated in a variable proportion of their erythrocytes, as well as in cells from a younger sib and from the mother. The latter also had elevation of the Hb-A2 fraction, and it is suggested that the above family has a combination of α- and β-thalassaemia.
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