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

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