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Spherocytosis history and symptoms
Introduction
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Overview
Overview
Symptoms
Symptoms
The spleen‘s hemolysis results directly in varying degrees of anemia and hyperbilirubinemia, which in turn result in symptoms of fatigue, pallor, and jaundice.
In chronic patients, an infection or other illness can cause an increase in the destruction of red blood cells, resulting in the appearance of acute symptoms, a hemolytic crisis.
References
References
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