There were oval macrocytes in the NEQAS
blood film I looked at yesterday, but not really much else of note. Was it
South East Asian ovalocytosis?
I looked the condition up… it
apparently confers protection against malaria. Something to do with the band 3
proteins.
This made me think… you get lower
parasitaemias in people with hereditary spherocytosis who get malaria too. And
hereditary elliptocytosis also offers protection against malaria.
One lives and learns…
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