Open AccessAbout familial ovalocytosis
Author(s) -
Yu. P. Popov
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
kazanskij medicinskij žurnal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2587-9359
pISSN - 0368-4814
DOI - 10.17816/kazmj87242
Subject(s) - descendant , biology , anomaly (physics) , anatomy , physics , condensed matter physics , astronomy
In the blood of healthy people, red blood cells are round. A certain amount of red blood cells (no more than 3%) has a slightly oval shape. With anemia (especially with pernicious), relatively many oval erythrocytes are found. In general, ovalocytosis is understood as a rather rare anomaly, inherited not to every descendant and consisting in that. that a large number of red blood cells are oval or even rod-shaped. Such cases are observed in people of all races. Described in 1955 about 350-400 cases of this anomaly (Wilson and Long).