%0 Journal Article %T The Adverse Effects of Pregnancies Complicated by Hemoglobin H (HBH) Disease %J Iranian Journal of Pathology %I Farname Inc in collaboration with Iranian Society of Pathology %Z 1735-5303 %A Rabiee, Maryam %A Shams, Jalal-Aldin %A Zafargandie, Nafiseh %D 2015 %\ 10/01/2015 %V 10 %N 4 %P 318-321 %! The Adverse Effects of Pregnancies Complicated by Hemoglobin H (HBH) Disease %K Hemoglobin H %K Pregnancy %K Iran %R 10.7508/ijp.2015.04.012 %X Hemoglobin (Hb) H disease is a moderate form of α- thalassemia resulting from various genetic defects. HbH disease is not necessarily a benign disorder as has been generally thought. We present hereby a 25- year-old Iranian pregnant woman whom referred to our hospital for blood transfusion. She exhibited the clinical and hematological manifestation of HbH disease. Her father carries a common α-thalassemia deletion while her mother was normal in the hematological profile. The object of this report was to provide information about pregnancies affected by HbH disease. %U https://ijp.iranpath.org/article_13244_5351ac87d221068544e8fa75693dba86.pdf