Haemoglobinopathy as a cause of nucleated red cells in the fetus and neonate
- Royal Berkshire Hospital
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- Reading RG1 5AN, UK
- mjpollitzer@doctors.org.uk
Editor—We are interested in the article by Hermansen1 on the causes of peripheral nucleated red blood cells in newborn children and would add another differential diagnosis to this finding.
In the last decade, we have discovered two families affected by haemoglobin disorders where the diagnosis was suspected by the presence of high numbers of nucleated red cells in neonatal blood tests. In neither family was …
