Patient's question:
My husband is a patient with thalassemia. I don't know if this disease is inherited from grandparents to grandchildren. I would like to trouble the doctor to clarify a few things. How is thalassemia diagnosed?Doctor's answer:
Mild thalassemia without anemia or mild anemia can live like normal people. Severe thalassemia requires repeated surgeries to correct severe anemia. Hemoglobin 90 with mild anemia, MCV and MCH reduced, common iron deficiency anemia, should test serum iron, if serum iron should consider thalassemia. The diagnosis of thalassemia depends on the examination of thalassemia genes.