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Dyke-Young anaemia
Associated persons:
Sidney Campbell Dyke
Frieda Young
Description:
An acquired form of chronic immunohaemolytic macrocytic haemolytic anaemia with increased erythrocyte fragility.
See also:
Lederer-Brill disease - acute febrile hemolytic anaemia, under Max Lederer, American pathologist, 1885-1952.
Hayem-Widal syndrome - acholoric haemolytic icterus with splenomegaly, under Georges Hayem, French physician and haematologist, 1841-1933.
Bibliography:
- S. C. Dyke, F. Young:
Macrocytic hemolytic anaemia associated with increased red cell fragility. Lancet, 1938, II: 817-821.
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