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A Fast-moving Hæmoglobin in Hydrops Fœtalis

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DURING a study of the hæmoglobins of premature and still-born infants, a fast-moving hæmoglobin was found in a premature baby which clinically showed the symptoms of hydrops fœtalis associated with anæmia, hepato- and spleno-megaly, and which died shortly after birth.

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  1. Lie-Injo Luan Eng and Oey Hoey Giok, Lancet, i, 20 (1957).

  2. Ager, J. A. M., and Lehmann, H., Brit. Med. J., i, 929 (1958).

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LIE-INJO LUAN ENG, JO BWAN HIE A Fast-moving Hæmoglobin in Hydrops Fœtalis. Nature 185, 698 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1038/185698a0

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