title: [Clinical features of paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH) in China as compared with those in United Kingdom].
abstract: The clinical features of 26 patients of PNH in Sheffield Blood Centre, UK and 50 cases in our hospital, observed in the same period, were compared. Each case was analysed according to the same criteria, and then comparison was made between the two groups. Results showed that in our group: male patients were more common; patients usually had mild or moderate bleeding tendency; the appearance of hemoglobinuria was delayed; abdominal pain was mostly related to hemoglobinuria but not thrombosis; pancytopenia was encountered more frequently and leucopenia as well as thrombocytopenia more remarkable; the incidence of thrombosis was not rare, but occurred rather late: thrombosis was mainly seen in superficial veins, but not veins of viscera; the major cause of death was not thromboembolism but infection. About 25% of the patients achieved long term clinical remission in both groups. None of the patients in these two series transformed to myeloproliferative disorders including acute leukemia. PNH can be considered a benign and chronic hematologic disease.
authors.affiliation: Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Beijing.
authors.forename: Z N
authors.initials: ZN
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: E K
authors.initials: EK
authors.lastname: Liu
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D001772:Blood Cell Count; D002681:China / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D006457:Hemoglobinuria, Paroxysmal / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000401:mortality; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012737:Sex Factors; D015996:Survival Rate; D013923:Thromboembolism / Q000209:etiology; D006113:United Kingdom / Q000453:epidemiology