Edited by Stefan Mundlos, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany; received December 23, 2021; accepted September 10, 2022 by Editorial Board Member Denis Duboule ...

Persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn (PPHN) is commonly associated with pulmonary parenchymal pathology, sepsis, lung hypoplasia or congenital cardiac defects. 1 Peripheral arterio ...

Seventy-seven years later, in 1938, Hallpike and Cairns in England and Yamakawa in Japan identified cochleosaccular endolymphatic hydrops (EH) as the histopathologic correlate of Meniere’s disease (MD ...

GTA schools are reporting cases of a disease commonly known as “slapped cheek” syndrome — an infectious virus often appearing in school-age children. A recent letter posted on a door at a ...

These methods confirm whether the fetus has inherited the disorder. If couples decline invasive testing, but are at risk for severe conditions like hemoglobin Bart’s hydrops fetalis (caused by the ...

Severe thalassemia includes conditions like Hb Bart's hydrops fetalis and transfusion-dependent thalassemia (TDT), which includes β-thalassemia major and two non-deletional Hemoglobin H diseases.

If all four alpha globin genes are missing, it results in a condition known as hydrops fetalis, which is extremely serious. This form causes severe anemia in the baby and often leads to stillbirth.