Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Diamond-Blackfan anemia (DBA) is a severe congenital erythroid aplastic anemia with autosomal dominant inheritance. It is a rare disease (incidence 1/150000) and usually is discovered during the 2 first years after birth. Treatment includes steroids, blood transfusions and bone-marrow transplantation.Case report: A 31 year-old woman with DBA had received multiple treatments including transfusion support since birth. Consequently, she had de...