Abstract

The gold standard for prenatal diagnosis of α-thalassemia is mutational analysis of fetal cells by chorionic villous sampling or amniocentesis. However, these are time-consuming tests and thus, in the mid-trimester the diagnosis can be made expeditiously by percutaneous umbilical cord blood sampling with high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) analysis of the fetal hemoglobins. We present a case of Bart’s …

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