Incidence of hemoglobinopathies among anemic patients visiting National Center of Hematology

Abstract

AbstractThe hemoglobinopathies encompass heterogeneous group of disorders associated with either singlegene mutation in α globin and β globin genes (as in α and β thalassemia).the aim was to estimate theincidence of hemoglobinopathies in patients with hypochromic microcytic anemia during the periodfrom 1st January 2011 till 31st December 2012 at the National Center of Hematology ion a total of 1103patients by using high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) technique. we found these results:656 patients (58.9928%) shows normal Hb-electrophoreses while 447 patients (40.5258%)showsabnormal Hb-electrophoresis