Skip to main content
Device Global Header

Subscribe
or Renew

Advanced Search

This article is available to subscribers. Subscribe now. Already have an account? Sign in

Case Records of the Massachusetts General Hospital

Case 14-2006 — A 25-Year-Old Woman with Anemia and Iron Overload

List of authors.
  • Eyal C. Attar, M.D.,
  • and Robert P. Hasserjian, M.D.

A young woman was seen because of anemia and evidence of increased iron stores. She was of Italian descent. Her father, a paternal aunt, and one sister had Diamond–Blackfan anemia, and her mother had been told she had β-thalassemia trait.

Continue reading this article

Select an option below:

Create your account to get 2 free subscriber-only articles each month.

Get Free Access Now Subscribe For Full Access

Already have an account?

Sign In

Print subscriber?

Activate your online access.

Funding and Disclosures

No potential conflict of interest relevant to this article was reported.

We are indebted to Drs. David Nathan, Colin Sieff, Stuart Orkin, David Chui, and Wendy Garrett for their valuable input.

Author Affiliations

From the Center for Leukemia (E.C.A.) and the Department of Pathology (R.P.H.), Massachusetts General Hospital; and the Departments of Medicine (E.C.A.) and Pathology (R.P.H.), Harvard Medical School — both in Boston.

Print Subscriber? Activate your online access.