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Volume 332:614 March 2, 1995 Number 9
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Treatment of Sideroblastic Anemia with Chloroquine

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To the Editor: The mainstay of treatment for sideroblastic anemia, a group of heterogeneous disorders1,2 involving a defect in heme synthesis,3 is transfusion. We describe a 19-year-old man with sideroblastic anemia who was successfully treated with chloroquine.

The patient was referred to our institution in 1984 because of anemia. The white-cell count was 8.6x109 per liter, the platelet count 350x109 per liter, the hemoglobin level 5 g per deciliter, the mean cell volume 86 µm3, and the reticulocyte count 11x103 per liter. In the bone marrow, erythroid cellularity was normal, but there were . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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