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Acanthocytosis causes
Introduction
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Causes
Causes
Acanthocytosis is a red cell phenotype associated with various underlying conditions. The most frequent and most significant conditions include abetalipoproteinemia (Bassen-Kornzweig syndrome) and spur cell hemolytic anemia of severe liver disease. Other, less frequent conditions include the following:
- Neuroacanthocytosis
- Anorexia nervosa and other malnutrition states
- Infantile pyknocytosis
- McLeod syndrome
- In(Lu) null Lutheran phenotype
- Hypothyroidism
- Idiopathic neonatal hepatitis
- Myxedema
- Transient hemolysis and stomatocytosis in individuals with alcoholism and mild hemolysis and spherocytosis in individuals with congestive splenomegaly
- Homozygous familial hypobetalipoproteinemia
- Zieve syndrome
- Chronic granulomatous disease (CGD) associated with McLeod red cell phenotype
References
References
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