Define Diamond Blackfan Anemia. What Causes Diamond-Blackfan Anemia. Find out information about Blackfan-Diamond anemia.
The major function of bone marrow is to produce new blood cells. Diamond-Blackfan anemia DBA is an autosomal dominant disorder of the bone marrow where an insufficient amount of red blood cells are produced leading to anemia. This is a hereditary type of anemia characterized with decreased erythroid procursors or absence of erythroid procursors in the bone marrow.
DBA is a heterogeneous genetic disease inherited as an.
A pathological deficiency in the oxygen-carrying component of the blood measured in unit volume concentrations of hemoglobin red blood. Louis Klein Diamond Ukainian-born US. Drug-induced hemolytic anemia drug-induced immune hemolytic anemia a form of immune hemolytic anemia induced by the taking of drugs involving one of four different mechanisms. Age less than 1 year Macrocytic anaemia with no other significant cytopenias.
