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Sickle cell and thiamine deficiency: case report of a fetal death

O Multon1, O Sibony, L Carbillon

  • 1Department of Perinatology, Robert Debré Hospital, Paris, France.

Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy
|September 1, 1994
PubMed

The heterozygous state of the sickle cell trait is not known to be a cause of fetal death. This is a report of disseminated placental infarcts associated with thiamine deficiency in a patient with the sickle cell trait. This pathological association suggests an original physiopathological process.

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