Severe haemolysis associated with hepatitis A and normal glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase status.
We report massive acute haemolysis associated with hepatitis A in a 36 year old Irish woman. Although mild anaemia is not uncommon during viral hepatitis, haemolysis of the severity observed in this patient has previously been reported only in patients with glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency.
Lyons
D J
DJ
Department of Medicine, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, Republic of Ireland.
Gilvarry
J M
JM
Fielding
J F
JF
D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D005954:Glucosephosphate Dehydrogenase / Q000378:metabolism*; D006461:Hemolysis; D006506:Hepatitis A / Q000097:blood* / Q000201:enzymology; D006801:Humans
D005954:Glucosephosphate Dehydrogenase