The hemoglobinopathies in Trinidad

ABSTRACT

Six hundred and fifty persons were studied with respect to electrophoresis and foetal hemoglobin. Of 204 random samples, 177 were normal, 19 showed an AS pattern, 6 AC, 1 AE and 1 AN. In a group diagnosed as having hemoglobinopathy the following results were noted SS 121, AS 200, SC18, AC 18, AE 1, S-Thal. 6, C-Thal. 4, Thal. Major 6, Four cases were complicated by a megaloblastic anaemia and 1 case of high foetal hemoglobin in a child with chronic myeloid leukemia is recorded (AU)