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Decrease in the Concentration of Haemoglobin A2 during Erythroleukaemia

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DURING the past decade there have been several descriptions of abnormal haemoglobin in leukaemia1–4. The earliest reports emphasized the increase of foetal haemoglobin content in some cases of leukaemia in children and adults1–3. The occurrence of haemoglobin H in cases of erythroleukaemia and atypical chronic myeloid leukaemia was also reported4. In these cases no alteration in the level of the normal minor haemoglobin fraction, haemoglobin A2, was noted. We have investigated an erythroleukaemic patient with a very low level of haemoglobin A2 which developed in the course of leukaemia.

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AKSOY, M., ERDEM, S. Decrease in the Concentration of Haemoglobin A2 during Erythroleukaemia. Nature 213, 522–523 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/213522b0

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