HAPTOGLOBIN IN THALASSEMIA

The type and presence of haptoglobins were determined in the serum of 35 and 42 patients with thalassemia major and minor respectively. Haptoglobins could not be shown in the starch gel electropheresis in 74 and 17% of these groups of patients respectively. No correlation was found between the age, hemoglobin concentrations, transfusion frequency, size of spleen, liver, reticulocyte count, nucleated red blood cells and the presence or absence of Hb A electrophoretically in thalassemia major cases. It is pointed out that the incidence of ahaptoglobinemia among thalassemia trait cases seems to be more frequent. © 1969 S. Karger AG, Basel.