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R Tartara

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PubMed1984

[Behavior of blood folate in children with thalassemia major under transfusion therapy and in thalassemia trait].

The folic acid plasma level in 12 out of 13 children with thalassemia major was lower than 3 ng/ml. This deficiency is not due to intestinal malabsorption. Folate deficiency should then be provoked by an increased allowance due to the compensatory erythropoiesis and to the lack of. Folic acid level less then 3 ng/ml in 24% and not more then 6 ng/ml in 50% of thalassemic heterozygotic children has been found. Therefore the necessity of folic acid treatment in thalassemic children with a low blood transfusional therapy and in beta-thalassemic heterozygotic children has been recommended.

Blood Transfusion↗
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[Carnitine deficiency syndrome. Two cases].

Due to its rarity and biochemical and clinical heterogeneity, carnitine deficiency syndrome is difficult to diagnose in those cases where there are no past episodes of the disease. The paper describes two cases: one of a child aged 2 years and 10 months in whom tests permitted the diagnosis of a primary systemic form of carnitine deficiency; the other case concerned a 3 month-old baby girl who died unexpectedly due to hypothesised metabolic disease with secondary carnitine deficiency. The similarities and differences observed in the two cases are discussed.

Carnitine↗