Taber's Medical Dictionary
Diamond-Blackfan anemia, Blackfan-Diamond syndrome
(dī′(ă-)mŏnd-blak′fan″)
[Louis Klein Diamond, Ukrainian-born U.S. pediatrician, 1902-1999; Kenneth Daniel Blackfan, U.S. pediatrician, 1883-1941]
A rare, severe normochromic macrocytic anemia of neonates and infants in which vitamin B12 and folate levels are normal or elevated and reticulocytosis is inadequately low.
TREATMENT
The anemia may respond to corticosteroid therapy or may require repeated transfusions.
SYN: SEE: congenital hypoplastic anemia; SEE: erythroblastopenia; SEE: erythrogenesis imperfecta
Citation
Venes, Donald, editor. "Diamond-Blackfan Anemia, Blackfan-Diamond Syndrome." Taber's Medical Dictionary, 24th ed., F.A. Davis Company, 2021. Nursing Central, nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/754670/0/Diamond_Blackfan_anemia_Blackfan_Diamond_syndrome.
Diamond-Blackfan anemia, Blackfan-Diamond syndrome. In: Venes DD, ed. Taber's Medical Dictionary. F.A. Davis Company; 2021. https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/754670/0/Diamond_Blackfan_anemia_Blackfan_Diamond_syndrome. Accessed April 19, 2024.
Diamond-Blackfan anemia, Blackfan-Diamond syndrome. (2021). In Venes, D. (Ed.), Taber's Medical Dictionary (24th ed.). F.A. Davis Company. https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/754670/0/Diamond_Blackfan_anemia_Blackfan_Diamond_syndrome
Diamond-Blackfan Anemia, Blackfan-Diamond Syndrome [Internet]. In: Venes DD, editors. Taber's Medical Dictionary. F.A. Davis Company; 2021. [cited 2024 April 19]. Available from: https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/754670/0/Diamond_Blackfan_anemia_Blackfan_Diamond_syndrome.
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