Hereditary Elliptocytose

The elliptocytose is a hematologic affection rare characterized by anomalies of the cytosquelette of the red blood corpuscles which take the shape of ellipse.

It is about a Genetic disease which is transmitted on the autosomic Mode dominating and results from a change of the Gène S of proteins constituting the cytosquelette red blood corpuscles: alpha or béta-spectrines for example.

The demonstrations are very disparate until the haemolytic Anémie.

The diagnosis rests on the examination of the blood smear which contains more than 15% of Elliptocyte S (red blood corpuscles in ellipse).

A Splénectomie is necessary in the serious forms.

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