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Spherocytosis, Hereditary

"Spherocytosis, Hereditary" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

A familial congenital hemolytic anemia characterized by numerous abnormally shaped erythrocytes which are generally spheroidal. The erythrocytes have increased osmotic fragility and are abnormally permeable to sodium ions.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Spherocytosis, Hereditary" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Spherocytosis, Hereditary" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 37 publications over 21 distinct years, with a maximum of 6 publications in 1996
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Funded by the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences through its Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program, grant number UL1TR002541.